Saturday, March 12, 2011
Friday, March 11, 2011
Atlas Shrugged
Ayn Rand wrote a story over 50 years ago about a vision of the future of this country. She dared to envision a country were the Government had become so powerful that it was able to make free people do what it wanted.
The rights to this story were sold over 20 years ago but liberal hollywood has seen fit not to make it into a movie...until now.
'Atlas Shrugged': From Fiction to Fact in 52 Years
By STEPHEN MOORE
Some years ago when I worked at the libertarian Cato Institute, we used to label any new hire who had not yet read "Atlas Shrugged" a "virgin." Being conversant in Ayn Rand's classic novel about the economic carnage caused by big government run amok was practically a job requirement. If only "Atlas" were required reading for every member of Congress and political appointee in the Obama administration. I'm confident that we'd get out of the current financial mess a lot faster.
Many of us who know Rand's work have noticed that with each passing week, and with each successive bailout plan and economic-stimulus scheme out of Washington, our current politicians are committing the very acts of economic lunacy that "Atlas Shrugged" parodied in 1957, when this 1,000-page novel was first published and became an instant hit.
Rand, who had come to America from Soviet Russia with striking insights into totalitarianism and the destructiveness of socialism, was already a celebrity. The left, naturally, hated her. But as recently as 1991, a survey by the Library of Congress and the Book of the Month Club found that readers rated "Atlas" as the second-most influential book in their lives, behind only the Bible.
For the uninitiated, the moral of the story is simply this: Politicians invariably respond to crises -- that in most cases they themselves created -- by spawning new government programs, laws and regulations. These, in turn, generate more havoc and poverty, which inspires the politicians to create more programs . . . and the downward spiral repeats itself until the productive sectors of the economy collapse under the collective weight of taxes and other burdens imposed in the name of fairness, equality and do-goodism.
In the book, these relentless wealth redistributionists and their programs are disparaged as "the looters and their laws." Every new act of government futility and stupidity carries with it a benevolent-sounding title. These include the "Anti-Greed Act" to redistribute income (sounds like Charlie Rangel's promises soak-the-rich tax bill) and the "Equalization of Opportunity Act" to prevent people from starting more than one business (to give other people a chance). My personal favorite, the "Anti Dog-Eat-Dog Act," aims to restrict cut-throat competition between firms and thus slow the wave of business bankruptcies. Why didn't Hank Paulson think of that?
These acts and edicts sound farcical, yes, but no more so than the actual events in Washington, circa 2008. We already have been served up the $700 billion "Emergency Economic Stabilization Act" and the "Auto Industry Financing and Restructuring Act." Now that Barack Obama is in town, he will soon sign into law with great urgency the "American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan." This latest Hail Mary pass will increase the federal budget (which has already expanded by $1.5 trillion in eight years under George Bush) by an additional $1 trillion -- in roughly his first 100 days in office.
The current economic strategy is right out of "Atlas Shrugged": The more incompetent you are in business, the more handouts the politicians will bestow on you. That's the justification for the $2 trillion of subsidies doled out already to keep afloat distressed insurance companies, banks, Wall Street investment houses, and auto companies -- while standing next in line for their share of the booty are real-estate developers, the steel industry, chemical companies, airlines, ethanol producers, construction firms and even catfish farmers. With each successive bailout to "calm the markets," another trillion of national wealth is subsequently lost. Yet, as "Atlas" grimly foretold, we now treat the incompetent who wreck their companies as victims, while those resourceful business owners who manage to make a profit are portrayed as recipients of illegitimate "windfalls."
When Rand was writing in the 1950s, one of the pillars of American industrial might was the railroads. In her novel the railroad owner, Dagny Taggart, an enterprising industrialist, has a FedEx-like vision for expansion and first-rate service by rail. But she is continuously badgered, cajoled, taxed, ruled and regulated -- always in the public interest -- into bankruptcy. Sound far-fetched? On the day I sat down to write this ode to "Atlas," a Wall Street Journal headline blared: "Rail Shippers Ask Congress to Regulate Freight Prices."
In one chapter of the book, an entrepreneur invents a new miracle metal -- stronger but lighter than steel. The government immediately appropriates the invention in "the public good." The politicians demand that the metal inventor come to Washington and sign over ownership of his invention or lose everything.
The scene is eerily similar to an event late last year when six bank presidents were summoned by Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson to Washington, and then shuttled into a conference room and told, in effect, that they could not leave until they collectively signed a document handing over percentages of their future profits to the government. The Treasury folks insisted that this shakedown, too, was all in "the public interest."
Ultimately, "Atlas Shrugged" is a celebration of the entrepreneur, the risk taker and the cultivator of wealth through human intellect. Critics dismissed the novel as simple-minded, and even some of Rand's political admirers complained that she lacked compassion. Yet one pertinent warning resounds throughout the book: When profits and wealth and creativity are denigrated in society, they start to disappear -- leaving everyone the poorer.
One memorable moment in "Atlas" occurs near the very end, when the economy has been rendered comatose by all the great economic minds in Washington. Finally, and out of desperation, the politicians come to the heroic businessman John Galt (who has resisted their assault on capitalism) and beg him to help them get the economy back on track. The discussion sounds much like what would happen today:
Galt: "You want me to be Economic Dictator?"
Mr. Thompson: "Yes!"
"And you'll obey any order I give?"
"Implicitly!"
"Then start by abolishing all income taxes."
"Oh no!" screamed Mr. Thompson, leaping to his feet. "We couldn't do that . . . How would we pay government employees?"
"Fire your government employees."
"Oh, no!"
Abolishing the income tax. Now that really would be a genuine economic stimulus. But Mr. Obama and the Democrats in Washington want to do the opposite: to raise the income tax "for purposes of fairness" as Barack Obama puts it.
David Kelley, the president of the Atlas Society, which is dedicated to promoting Rand's ideas, explains that "the older the book gets, the more timely its message." He tells me that there are plans to make "Atlas Shrugged" into a major motion picture -- it is the only classic novel of recent decades that was never made into a movie. "We don't need to make a movie out of the book," Mr. Kelley jokes. "We are living it right now."
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123146363567166677.html
The rights to this story were sold over 20 years ago but liberal hollywood has seen fit not to make it into a movie...until now.
March 14, 2011:
This is an article I found from Wall Street Journal Online:
By STEPHEN MOORE
Some years ago when I worked at the libertarian Cato Institute, we used to label any new hire who had not yet read "Atlas Shrugged" a "virgin." Being conversant in Ayn Rand's classic novel about the economic carnage caused by big government run amok was practically a job requirement. If only "Atlas" were required reading for every member of Congress and political appointee in the Obama administration. I'm confident that we'd get out of the current financial mess a lot faster.
Many of us who know Rand's work have noticed that with each passing week, and with each successive bailout plan and economic-stimulus scheme out of Washington, our current politicians are committing the very acts of economic lunacy that "Atlas Shrugged" parodied in 1957, when this 1,000-page novel was first published and became an instant hit.
Rand, who had come to America from Soviet Russia with striking insights into totalitarianism and the destructiveness of socialism, was already a celebrity. The left, naturally, hated her. But as recently as 1991, a survey by the Library of Congress and the Book of the Month Club found that readers rated "Atlas" as the second-most influential book in their lives, behind only the Bible.
For the uninitiated, the moral of the story is simply this: Politicians invariably respond to crises -- that in most cases they themselves created -- by spawning new government programs, laws and regulations. These, in turn, generate more havoc and poverty, which inspires the politicians to create more programs . . . and the downward spiral repeats itself until the productive sectors of the economy collapse under the collective weight of taxes and other burdens imposed in the name of fairness, equality and do-goodism.
In the book, these relentless wealth redistributionists and their programs are disparaged as "the looters and their laws." Every new act of government futility and stupidity carries with it a benevolent-sounding title. These include the "Anti-Greed Act" to redistribute income (sounds like Charlie Rangel's promises soak-the-rich tax bill) and the "Equalization of Opportunity Act" to prevent people from starting more than one business (to give other people a chance). My personal favorite, the "Anti Dog-Eat-Dog Act," aims to restrict cut-throat competition between firms and thus slow the wave of business bankruptcies. Why didn't Hank Paulson think of that?
These acts and edicts sound farcical, yes, but no more so than the actual events in Washington, circa 2008. We already have been served up the $700 billion "Emergency Economic Stabilization Act" and the "Auto Industry Financing and Restructuring Act." Now that Barack Obama is in town, he will soon sign into law with great urgency the "American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan." This latest Hail Mary pass will increase the federal budget (which has already expanded by $1.5 trillion in eight years under George Bush) by an additional $1 trillion -- in roughly his first 100 days in office.
The current economic strategy is right out of "Atlas Shrugged": The more incompetent you are in business, the more handouts the politicians will bestow on you. That's the justification for the $2 trillion of subsidies doled out already to keep afloat distressed insurance companies, banks, Wall Street investment houses, and auto companies -- while standing next in line for their share of the booty are real-estate developers, the steel industry, chemical companies, airlines, ethanol producers, construction firms and even catfish farmers. With each successive bailout to "calm the markets," another trillion of national wealth is subsequently lost. Yet, as "Atlas" grimly foretold, we now treat the incompetent who wreck their companies as victims, while those resourceful business owners who manage to make a profit are portrayed as recipients of illegitimate "windfalls."
When Rand was writing in the 1950s, one of the pillars of American industrial might was the railroads. In her novel the railroad owner, Dagny Taggart, an enterprising industrialist, has a FedEx-like vision for expansion and first-rate service by rail. But she is continuously badgered, cajoled, taxed, ruled and regulated -- always in the public interest -- into bankruptcy. Sound far-fetched? On the day I sat down to write this ode to "Atlas," a Wall Street Journal headline blared: "Rail Shippers Ask Congress to Regulate Freight Prices."
In one chapter of the book, an entrepreneur invents a new miracle metal -- stronger but lighter than steel. The government immediately appropriates the invention in "the public good." The politicians demand that the metal inventor come to Washington and sign over ownership of his invention or lose everything.
The scene is eerily similar to an event late last year when six bank presidents were summoned by Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson to Washington, and then shuttled into a conference room and told, in effect, that they could not leave until they collectively signed a document handing over percentages of their future profits to the government. The Treasury folks insisted that this shakedown, too, was all in "the public interest."
Ultimately, "Atlas Shrugged" is a celebration of the entrepreneur, the risk taker and the cultivator of wealth through human intellect. Critics dismissed the novel as simple-minded, and even some of Rand's political admirers complained that she lacked compassion. Yet one pertinent warning resounds throughout the book: When profits and wealth and creativity are denigrated in society, they start to disappear -- leaving everyone the poorer.
One memorable moment in "Atlas" occurs near the very end, when the economy has been rendered comatose by all the great economic minds in Washington. Finally, and out of desperation, the politicians come to the heroic businessman John Galt (who has resisted their assault on capitalism) and beg him to help them get the economy back on track. The discussion sounds much like what would happen today:
Galt: "You want me to be Economic Dictator?"
Mr. Thompson: "Yes!"
"And you'll obey any order I give?"
"Implicitly!"
"Then start by abolishing all income taxes."
"Oh no!" screamed Mr. Thompson, leaping to his feet. "We couldn't do that . . . How would we pay government employees?"
"Fire your government employees."
"Oh, no!"
Abolishing the income tax. Now that really would be a genuine economic stimulus. But Mr. Obama and the Democrats in Washington want to do the opposite: to raise the income tax "for purposes of fairness" as Barack Obama puts it.
David Kelley, the president of the Atlas Society, which is dedicated to promoting Rand's ideas, explains that "the older the book gets, the more timely its message." He tells me that there are plans to make "Atlas Shrugged" into a major motion picture -- it is the only classic novel of recent decades that was never made into a movie. "We don't need to make a movie out of the book," Mr. Kelley jokes. "We are living it right now."
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123146363567166677.html
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Victory in Wisconsin!
The MSM is going nuts about this. The spinmiesters at CNN are beside themselves about a major defeat of a Socialist program. We are taking back our country!!!
Wisconsin Senate GOP Votes to Strip State Workers of Collective Bargaining Rights
Published March 09, 2011 | FoxNews.com
Bypassing Democrats hiding out in Illinois, Wisconsin Senate Republicans voted Wednesday night to strip state workers of their collective bargaining rights.
Republicans voted 18-1 to pass the stripped-down budget bill in a hastily arranged meeting. None of the Senate Democrats were present.
The state Assembly votes on the bill Thursday.
All 14 Senate Democrats fled to Illinois nearly three weeks ago, preventing the chamber from having enough members present to consider Gov. Scott Walker's so-called "budget repair bill" -- a proposal introduced to plug a $137 million budget shortfall..
The Senate requires a quorum to take up any measures that spend money. But Republicans on Wednesday split from the legislation the proposal to curtail union rights, and a special conference committee of state lawmakers approved that bill a short time later.
The lone Democrat present on the conference committee, Rep. Tony Barca, shouted that the surprise meeting was a violation of the state's open meetings law but Republicans voted over his objections. The Senate then convened within minutes and passed it without discussion or debate.
Spectators in the gallery screamed "You are cowards."
Before the sudden votes, Democratic Sens. Bob Jauch said if Republicans "chose to ram this bill through in this fashion, it will be to their political peril. They're changing the rules. They will inflame a very frustrated public."
Walker praised the legislative action.
"The Senate Democrats have had three weeks to debate this bill and were offered repeated opportunities to come home, which they refused," he said in a statement.
"In order to move the state forward, I applaud the Legislature's action today to stand up to the status quo and take a step in the right direction to balance the budget and reform the government," he said. "The action today will help ensure Wisconsin has a business climate that allows the private sector to create 250,000 new jobs."
State Senate Democratic Minority Leader Mark Miller issued a statement saying, "Tomorrow we will join the people of Wisconsin in taking back their government."
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/03/09/wisconsin-republicans-plan-pass-budget-democrats-sources-say/#ixzz1G9kS4cza
82% Failure
Would you keep investing millions of dollars into a system that has a 82% failure rate? You are. Your taxes are continuing to pay for the failed United States Public Indoctrination System. Enough is enough. We need to get rid of this drain on our society and have the Federal Government get out of it's unsuccessful education system.
Read on if you went to a good school or survived the Public Indoctrination System:
82 percent of US schools may be labeled 'failing'
(AP) – 2 hours ago
An estimated 82 percent of U.S. schools could be labeled as "failing" under the nation's No Child Left Behind Act this year, Education Secretary Arne Duncan said Wednesday.
The Department of Education estimates the number of schools not meeting targets will skyrocket from 37 to 82 percent in 2011 because states are toughening their standards to meet the requirements of the law. The schools will face sanctions ranging from offering tutoring to closing their doors.
"No Child Left Behind is broken and we need to fix it now," Duncan said in a statement. "This law has created a thousand ways for schools to fail and very few ways to help them succeed."
Duncan delivered the news in remarks to a House education and work force committee hearing, in urging lawmakers to rewrite the Bush-era act. The law was established in 2002 and many education officials and experts argue it is overdue for changes.
President Barack Obama has highlighted reforming the act as a priority for his administration, and both Democrats and Republicans have agreed that it needs to be changed — though disagreements remain on how.
The current law sets annual student achievement targets designed with the goal of having all students proficient in math and reading by 2014, a standard now viewed as wildly unrealistic.
Duncan said the law has done well in shining a light on achievement gaps among minority and low-income students, as well as those who are still learning English or have disabilities. But he said the law is loose on goals and narrow on how schools get there when it should be the opposite.
"We should get out of the business of labeling schools as failures and create a new law that is fair and flexible, and focused on the schools and students most at risk," Duncan said.
The Department of Education said its estimate was based on four years of data and the assuming all schools would improve at the same rate as the top quartile.
"Even under these assumptions, 82 percent of America's schools could be labeled 'failing' and, over time, the required remedies for all of them are the same — which means we will really fail to serve the students in greatest need," Duncan said.
Copyright © 2011 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
(AP) – 2 hours ago
An estimated 82 percent of U.S. schools could be labeled as "failing" under the nation's No Child Left Behind Act this year, Education Secretary Arne Duncan said Wednesday.
The Department of Education estimates the number of schools not meeting targets will skyrocket from 37 to 82 percent in 2011 because states are toughening their standards to meet the requirements of the law. The schools will face sanctions ranging from offering tutoring to closing their doors.
"No Child Left Behind is broken and we need to fix it now," Duncan said in a statement. "This law has created a thousand ways for schools to fail and very few ways to help them succeed."
Duncan delivered the news in remarks to a House education and work force committee hearing, in urging lawmakers to rewrite the Bush-era act. The law was established in 2002 and many education officials and experts argue it is overdue for changes.
President Barack Obama has highlighted reforming the act as a priority for his administration, and both Democrats and Republicans have agreed that it needs to be changed — though disagreements remain on how.
The current law sets annual student achievement targets designed with the goal of having all students proficient in math and reading by 2014, a standard now viewed as wildly unrealistic.
Duncan said the law has done well in shining a light on achievement gaps among minority and low-income students, as well as those who are still learning English or have disabilities. But he said the law is loose on goals and narrow on how schools get there when it should be the opposite.
"We should get out of the business of labeling schools as failures and create a new law that is fair and flexible, and focused on the schools and students most at risk," Duncan said.
The Department of Education said its estimate was based on four years of data and the assuming all schools would improve at the same rate as the top quartile.
"Even under these assumptions, 82 percent of America's schools could be labeled 'failing' and, over time, the required remedies for all of them are the same — which means we will really fail to serve the students in greatest need," Duncan said.
Copyright © 2011 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
Friday, March 4, 2011
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
American Communism
Here is an example of the Communist drones in this country. They have been indoctrinated by the Public School systems from early childhood and then are given well paid jobs by their unions. The Public Sector Drones are paid more then their private counterparts yet drones are given their marching orders and do what they are told to do. They have no understanding of what the issues are but are willing to fight for Progressive causes and slogans.
Drudge Report
I noticed a few years ago that most Conservative Pundits used 'The Drudge Report'(http://www.drudgereport.com/ ) as one of their main sources in their shows. This is a great site as it filters most of the useless Progressive Propaganda and only includes the important stories. The Left as usual is now crying foul because Matt Drudge is like a janitor who has entered a Progressives failing tenement housing with a flashlight. As he shines his light on them they become evident to everyone and begin to scamper away back into the cracks. He focuses on their failures and the continuing fraud that they cause to our nation. The following article states how effective he is because the Progressives hate the truth and their exposure.
Read this article from 'The Hill' :
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Sunday, February 27, 2011
Civility?
President Obama asked for civility when arguing politics. But was it only for the Republicans?
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Get Ready
If you thought that the last couple of years were a roller coaster ride then get ready for what is coming this year. Things are so bad that now the public sector people are beginning to scream. Imagine that after millions of private sector jobs have been lost that the Federal Government grew by 200,000 public sector jobs. Obama's mission to make the country a socialist state is now starting to cause some noticeable pain amongst his staunchest supporters. So put your ducks in order now and son't be surprise when the sh*t hits the fan.
Politico
Santelli compares budget crisis to Sept. 11
CNBC's Rick Santelli on Sunday compared the budget crises affecting state and federal balance sheets to a Sept. 11-type attack on the nation.
"If the country is ever attacked as it was on 9/11, we all respond with a sense of urgency," Santelli said in a roundtable discussion on NBC's "Meet the Press" about the Wisconsin labor protests. "What’s going on on balance sheets throughout the country is the same type of attack.”
There have been questions about the appropriateness of collective-bargaining agreements for public employees since the days of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Santelli added, and states are realizing that pension and benefit costs need to be controlled.
"This is an issue that needs to be put out into the air," Santelli said. "Many other states ultimately — they might not have the same balance sheet as Wisconsin — but collective bargaining from the federal level ... these are big issues, and these costs need to be put under control."
Santelli compares budget crisis to Sept. 11
CNBC's Rick Santelli on Sunday compared the budget crises affecting state and federal balance sheets to a Sept. 11-type attack on the nation.
"If the country is ever attacked as it was on 9/11, we all respond with a sense of urgency," Santelli said in a roundtable discussion on NBC's "Meet the Press" about the Wisconsin labor protests. "What’s going on on balance sheets throughout the country is the same type of attack.”
There have been questions about the appropriateness of collective-bargaining agreements for public employees since the days of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Santelli added, and states are realizing that pension and benefit costs need to be controlled.
"This is an issue that needs to be put out into the air," Santelli said. "Many other states ultimately — they might not have the same balance sheet as Wisconsin — but collective bargaining from the federal level ... these are big issues, and these costs need to be put under control."
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Friday, February 4, 2011
We are Americans
Enjoy this Superbowl weekend America. This is an old video but one that always comes to mind every Super Bowl. We are once again closer to the 'Founding Fathers' then we have been in awhile. We are Americans. God Bless.
Progressive Lies
*Lying and speaking is something that Progressives do without missing a beat. The following article illustrates how the MSM, the propaganda tool of the Progressives, feels threatened as it continues to loosen it's grip on the American populace. How can an article that is pure garbage be printed about how Republicans and Conservatives manipulating and controlling the MSM? That on itself is laughable and continued proof of the misdirection tactics that the Left enjoys to employ.
The Progressives feel threatened because Fox Cable News, Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin and a few other Conservative Talk Radio host, along with a handful of newspapers and magazines are out pacing sales compared to the rest of the Main Stream Media that they control. That has to be the boldest lie written yet. Joseph Goebbels the propaganda minister of Germany's National Socialist Party once said, "If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it".
The Progressives not only have the rest of the media; CNN, MSNBC, ABC, NBC, CBS almost all other printed propaganda magazines and fish wraps, but they also have us paying for it with our taxes for NPR!
NYDaily News
NYDaily News
Republicans wrote the political dictionary: It's proof Democrats don't control the media
Joshua Greenman
Friday, February 4th 2011, 4:00 AM
t's hard to know where to begin in dismantling the Republican canard that Democrats control the media. Fox News is the most popular 24-hour news network by a whoosh and a cachung. Rush Limbaugh is the most powerful radio host, and lots of little Limbaughs line up behind him. Sarah Palin is the biggest media-political crossover star. And in an increasingly fragmented Internet, the Drudge Report continues to drives more political traffic than any other website. In italics and bold, to boot.
I don't begrudge conservatives this success. It speaks to message discipline and to feeding tasty food to a hungry audience. An audience that is right of center, which left-wingers far too often fail to acknowledge.
But on top of all this real-world evidence of right-wing media primacy is even more compelling evidence that there's no such thing as a Dominant Liberal Media Elite: You can't control the conversation if you don't control the language.
The New York Times doesn't decide what words we use, nor does CNN or NPR. Our political vocabulary comes from the mouths of crafty conservatives, and that's the ultimate proof that they steer the conversation.
Obamacare. Pity the poor congressional and White House staffers who spent hours coming up with the bromidic name "Affordable Care Act" only to see the 2,300 page bill (which Republicans complained Obama played far too passive a role in shaping) get labeled, for all eternity, "Obamacare." This of course, is an update of the equally elegant Hillarycare. It's interesting to note that both were used, from the get go, as slurs, unlike, say, "Reaganomics." (Compare this to, say, "No Child Left Behind," which has never for a second been called Bushducation - though that would have been pretty catchy.)
Using the supposedly massive megaphone of the Liberal Media, Democrats, who were sensitive - hypersensitive, in my mind - to the Obamacare implication, tried to replace it with a blander formulation emphasizing insurance regulation.
Resistance was futile; Obamacare is punchy. It's descriptive. It works.
Pro-life. The history here is too complex to recount, but suffice to say that in a debate pitting the rights of women to have abortion, on the one hand, against the rights of unborn children to be carried to term, on the other, two madeup terms have defined the opposing sides: pro-choice and pro-life. The one the Republicans coined, and which now stands on terminologically equal footing with the Democrats' chosen term, is far superior; as sure as rock beats scissors, life beats choice.
Democrat Party. Liberals may moan and complain and repeatedly correct those who drop the "ic," but that makes them sound petty. Nobody understands why "Democrat Party" is a slur, but everyone knows that it is. That's the beauty of the Republicans continuing to use their devious little dig.
Apology tour. In 2009, President Obama visited lots of countries. On this trip, he said lots of things, the vast majority of which were explicitly intended to robustly advance American interests. P.S.: He also admitted that the United States has made some mistakes throughout its history, most recently during the two terms of George W. Bush's presidency. What was it? It was an apology tour.
Mainstream media. Try to follow the logic here: It's a bad thing to be considered outside of the political mainstream. There's certainly nothing wrong with mainstream religion, mainstream values or mainstream business. But somehow, the "mainstream media" is a slur, said with a sneer, because it's perceived to be controlled by the left. Oh, and it's not just "mainstream," which suggests playing to the broad swath of the American public; it's simultaneously "elite."
And to heap irony on top of illogic, right-wing voices malign the mainstream media from their powerful perches in the mainstream media.
Once the negative connotation stuck, it then became the "MSM" - which sounds more like an STD or an enemy Borg. To Limbaugh, it became the "drive-by media" - which is reckless and, I guess, shoots to kill. To Palin, it became "lamestream."
How'd they do it? It's brazen and amazing. Call it brazamazing, though I doubt that will stick.
Democrats have had their share of diction victories; "trickle-down economics" became part of the lexicon. So did "birthers." So did "teabaggers," a totally unfair distortion of a movement that deserves at least a modicum of respect.
But these are minor and mostly meaningless. It's a Republican language. The rest of us, we're just speaking it.
jgreenman@nydailynews.com
Joshua Greenman
Friday, February 4th 2011, 4:00 AM
t's hard to know where to begin in dismantling the Republican canard that Democrats control the media. Fox News is the most popular 24-hour news network by a whoosh and a cachung. Rush Limbaugh is the most powerful radio host, and lots of little Limbaughs line up behind him. Sarah Palin is the biggest media-political crossover star. And in an increasingly fragmented Internet, the Drudge Report continues to drives more political traffic than any other website. In italics and bold, to boot.
I don't begrudge conservatives this success. It speaks to message discipline and to feeding tasty food to a hungry audience. An audience that is right of center, which left-wingers far too often fail to acknowledge.
But on top of all this real-world evidence of right-wing media primacy is even more compelling evidence that there's no such thing as a Dominant Liberal Media Elite: You can't control the conversation if you don't control the language.
The New York Times doesn't decide what words we use, nor does CNN or NPR. Our political vocabulary comes from the mouths of crafty conservatives, and that's the ultimate proof that they steer the conversation.
Obamacare. Pity the poor congressional and White House staffers who spent hours coming up with the bromidic name "Affordable Care Act" only to see the 2,300 page bill (which Republicans complained Obama played far too passive a role in shaping) get labeled, for all eternity, "Obamacare." This of course, is an update of the equally elegant Hillarycare. It's interesting to note that both were used, from the get go, as slurs, unlike, say, "Reaganomics." (Compare this to, say, "No Child Left Behind," which has never for a second been called Bushducation - though that would have been pretty catchy.)
Using the supposedly massive megaphone of the Liberal Media, Democrats, who were sensitive - hypersensitive, in my mind - to the Obamacare implication, tried to replace it with a blander formulation emphasizing insurance regulation.
Resistance was futile; Obamacare is punchy. It's descriptive. It works.
Pro-life. The history here is too complex to recount, but suffice to say that in a debate pitting the rights of women to have abortion, on the one hand, against the rights of unborn children to be carried to term, on the other, two madeup terms have defined the opposing sides: pro-choice and pro-life. The one the Republicans coined, and which now stands on terminologically equal footing with the Democrats' chosen term, is far superior; as sure as rock beats scissors, life beats choice.
Democrat Party. Liberals may moan and complain and repeatedly correct those who drop the "ic," but that makes them sound petty. Nobody understands why "Democrat Party" is a slur, but everyone knows that it is. That's the beauty of the Republicans continuing to use their devious little dig.
Apology tour. In 2009, President Obama visited lots of countries. On this trip, he said lots of things, the vast majority of which were explicitly intended to robustly advance American interests. P.S.: He also admitted that the United States has made some mistakes throughout its history, most recently during the two terms of George W. Bush's presidency. What was it? It was an apology tour.
Mainstream media. Try to follow the logic here: It's a bad thing to be considered outside of the political mainstream. There's certainly nothing wrong with mainstream religion, mainstream values or mainstream business. But somehow, the "mainstream media" is a slur, said with a sneer, because it's perceived to be controlled by the left. Oh, and it's not just "mainstream," which suggests playing to the broad swath of the American public; it's simultaneously "elite."
And to heap irony on top of illogic, right-wing voices malign the mainstream media from their powerful perches in the mainstream media.
Once the negative connotation stuck, it then became the "MSM" - which sounds more like an STD or an enemy Borg. To Limbaugh, it became the "drive-by media" - which is reckless and, I guess, shoots to kill. To Palin, it became "lamestream."
How'd they do it? It's brazen and amazing. Call it brazamazing, though I doubt that will stick.
Democrats have had their share of diction victories; "trickle-down economics" became part of the lexicon. So did "birthers." So did "teabaggers," a totally unfair distortion of a movement that deserves at least a modicum of respect.
But these are minor and mostly meaningless. It's a Republican language. The rest of us, we're just speaking it.
jgreenman@nydailynews.com
http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2011/02/04/2011-02-04_republicans_wrote_the_political_dictionary_its_proof_democrats_dont_control_the_.html
*Oh and by the way. I'm continuing to enjoy how the Liberals are using every opportunity to attack the Conservative Governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin. I haven't seen this type of fear for a Conservative politician since President Ronald R. Reagan.
*Oh and by the way. I'm continuing to enjoy how the Liberals are using every opportunity to attack the Conservative Governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin. I haven't seen this type of fear for a Conservative politician since President Ronald R. Reagan.
Progressive Hate
Imagine if these Progressives were Tea Party Patriots. The MSM would have a field day. These vile people like to use the term 'Hope and Change' but for them it's really ,'Hate and Envy'. The MSM keeps this quiet, why?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3ctO7fdrcc&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3ctO7fdrcc&feature=player_embedded
UFO over Jerusalem
'UFO' Hovers Over Jerusalem's Dome of the Rock Shrine
Published February 03, 2011 The Sun
A glowing orb filmed hovering over the skyline of Jerusalem has left UFO experts dumbfounded.
The circular object was seen descending slowly over the holy city's iconic Dome of the Rock before flickering and shooting skyward like a rocket. Similar clips have been seen before and debunked as hoaxes. But this latest sighting has proved more difficult to dismiss -- as it was recorded from four different perspectives.
Some UFO enthusiasts believe the videos -- which have taken the Internet by storm -- are final proof that aliens exist, while others say the unidentified object was the Hebrew god Elohim.
Adding to the mystery is the fact that flying over the Dome of the Rock landmark -- an ancient Islamic shrine -- is forbidden.
Two witnesses at the Armon Hanatziv panoramic lookout near Mount Zion filmed the object at 1am on Saturday. A little after one minute into the clip, the object descends slowly, almost to ground level.
The craft hovers there for a short while and then flickers before shooting upwards at an incredible speed.
Former Ministry of Defense UFO investigator Nick Pope said: "If these are real, they are some of the most incredible videos ever shot.
"If they are not, then this is a very well-planned and coordinated hoax designed to eliminate elements of doubt.
"The way it shoots up into the sky suggests it is unmanned, because no living thing could survive those kinds of G-forces.
"We know the Israeli army has some very high-tech drones at its disposal. If this is one, it is one of the most advanced pieces of technology created by man."
Another set of observers also uploaded their mobile phone footage to YouTube on Saturday.
They wrote: "Have fun debunking this one." In their video, the American tourists can be heard saying: "We've seen them in Mississippi like this."
Two other clips filmed from different viewpoints were posted online. Skeptics have noted the views come from perspectives that could make nearby objects seem farther away and faster-moving. Others say the whole thing was faked and have prepared several alternative versions of the videos which they say prove they are not real.
These include stabilized versions in which the brightness and contrast have been increased, which they claim highlights a major flaw of perspective.
Another is motion-tracked, and apparently shows the UFO "bouncing around like crazy" -- which, say the sceptics, shows the makers had trouble inserting it into the scene.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZBjU6cT3x8
Published February 03, 2011 The Sun
A glowing orb filmed hovering over the skyline of Jerusalem has left UFO experts dumbfounded.
The circular object was seen descending slowly over the holy city's iconic Dome of the Rock before flickering and shooting skyward like a rocket. Similar clips have been seen before and debunked as hoaxes. But this latest sighting has proved more difficult to dismiss -- as it was recorded from four different perspectives.
Some UFO enthusiasts believe the videos -- which have taken the Internet by storm -- are final proof that aliens exist, while others say the unidentified object was the Hebrew god Elohim.
Adding to the mystery is the fact that flying over the Dome of the Rock landmark -- an ancient Islamic shrine -- is forbidden.
Two witnesses at the Armon Hanatziv panoramic lookout near Mount Zion filmed the object at 1am on Saturday. A little after one minute into the clip, the object descends slowly, almost to ground level.
The craft hovers there for a short while and then flickers before shooting upwards at an incredible speed.
Former Ministry of Defense UFO investigator Nick Pope said: "If these are real, they are some of the most incredible videos ever shot.
"If they are not, then this is a very well-planned and coordinated hoax designed to eliminate elements of doubt.
"The way it shoots up into the sky suggests it is unmanned, because no living thing could survive those kinds of G-forces.
"We know the Israeli army has some very high-tech drones at its disposal. If this is one, it is one of the most advanced pieces of technology created by man."
Another set of observers also uploaded their mobile phone footage to YouTube on Saturday.
They wrote: "Have fun debunking this one." In their video, the American tourists can be heard saying: "We've seen them in Mississippi like this."
Two other clips filmed from different viewpoints were posted online. Skeptics have noted the views come from perspectives that could make nearby objects seem farther away and faster-moving. Others say the whole thing was faked and have prepared several alternative versions of the videos which they say prove they are not real.
These include stabilized versions in which the brightness and contrast have been increased, which they claim highlights a major flaw of perspective.
Another is motion-tracked, and apparently shows the UFO "bouncing around like crazy" -- which, say the sceptics, shows the makers had trouble inserting it into the scene.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZBjU6cT3x8
Thursday, February 3, 2011
$300 Million Waste
This is what $300 million of your tax dollars are being spent on. If you pay taxes, this is the garbage that the Progressives have you paying for. The murder of countless future citizens. God forgive our nation.
Update Feb 4, 2011: The troll in the above video has been fired by Planned Parenthood. Why, because of what she did or because she got caught?
Read more:
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Power
The following article explains what the Tea Party is now doing in Washington. The Tea Party members were not sent there to destroy the government but to put our elected servants and their staff back in their place. They were not elected to rule us but to govern for us and what we want for this country. We want to get rid of all of the Progressive's agenda and to dust off the Constitution and put this country back on the proper path. This is just the beginning and 2012 will place more Conservatives in position to correct past mistakes.
Sen. Paul says tea party holds power on Hill
by Seth McLaughlin Washington Times
To those who predicted that the tea party movement would get swallowed up by Washington, Sen. Rand Paul says the cynics have got it completely backward — it's the tea party that has co-opted Capitol Hill.
The Kentucky Republican said in an interview that President Obama and most lawmakers have lined up behind the tea party's drive to end earmarks, while House and Senate Republicans are pushing bills to cut spending and repeal the president's health care overhaul — two more of the movement's top priorities.
Mr. Paul is a leading member of one of the most closely watched new class of lawmakers to hit Capitol Hill in a long time — tea party activists and political newcomers whose energy helped usher in a GOP majority in the House and an expanded Republican minority in the Senate.
"People asked whether we would be co-opted by Washington, I think we are co-opting Washington," Mr. Paul told The Washington Times, just hours after he and two colleagues held the first meeting of the Senate's Tea Party Caucus, which they said would serve as the liaison between the grass-roots movement and the people it helped propel to power.
"The president of the United States has been co-opted by the tea party,"Mr. Paul told the more than 200 people in attendance. He noted that in his State of the Union address Mr. Obama vowed to veto bills that include earmarks and to undo part of the health care law that imposes burdensome tax filing requirements on businesses.
Mr. Paul, whose crushing defeat of an establishment Republican in the primary and his victory in the general election epitomized the tea party's rising influence last year, said he supports the new House practice of requiring lawmakers to cite constitutional authority for each bill they offer. He has also introduced a 12-page bill that he said will cut $500 billion in federal spending immediately.
Dwarfing the other cost-cutting proposals on the table, Mr. Paul's plan would gut the Education and Energy departments and impose across-the-board spending cuts, including in the Pentagon's budget. He dismissed criticism that his plan is too radical.
"Most of official Washington thinks that is way too dramatic, but, guess what — it's not enough," Mr. Paul said. He argued that Mr. Obama's plan to freeze some domestic spending over the next five years "falls completely flat" because it affects only about 12 percent of the budget and does not begin to roll back the dramatic spending increases of the last two years.
Speaking at the Tea Party Caucus kickoff, fellow founding member Sen. Jim DeMint, South Carolina Republican, applauded Mr. Paul's proposal, telling the crowd that when the Kentuckian rolled out the plan many people wanted to brush it aside because it came from a "far right-winger."
"But if I walk through this crowd, I'm hearing, 'Why aren't you cutting $1.5 trillion? That's what our deficit is," Mr. DeMint said, garnering applause and laughter from the audience.
But passing Mr. Paul's spending cuts will be an uphill battle as both parties have played a hand in increasing the size of the federal budget, while failing to find ways to pay for the additional spending.
However, tea party activists hope that will change now that the recent election has breathed new life into the anti-government, anti-spending philosophy that they say fell out of fashion under President George W. Bush and during the first two years of the Obama administration.
Thursday's town-hall-style caucus meeting was organized by Mr. Paul,Mr. DeMint and Sen. Mike Lee of Utah, and featured guest appearances from Sens. Patrick J. Toomey, the Pennsylvania Republican who has not joined the group, and Jerry Moran, the Kansas Republican who announced his intent to become part of the caucus.
The lawmakers said they hope the caucus will help the tea party as it transitions from a protest movement into a serious legislative machine that can defend the Constitution, battle government overreach and take aim at the deficits and the $14 trillion national debt.
A crucial early test for the caucus will center on whether to raise the federal government's debt ceiling. Mr. Toomey dismissed as "factually untrue" claims that a failure to immediately raise the debt ceiling would result in the federal government defaulting on its loans.
"We should take off the table the false argument that failure to immediately raise the debt ceiling results in the default on our loans," Mr. Toomey said. He has proposed a 13-line bill that says in the "event that we don't raise the debt ceiling, the Treasury is hereby instructed to make debt service the first priority."
Mr. Toomey, echoing the sentiment of caucus members, said that lawmakers should raise the nation's borrowing limit only after enacting significant spending cuts and budget reforms, including a balanced-budget amendment that many tea party supporters see as a crucial tool needed to pull the country out of the red ink.
"The opportunity in my view is to use this moment to insist we are going to change the fiscal course of this country," he said.
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http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/jan/27/sen-paul-says-tea-party-holds-power-on-hill/
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
N. O. E.
N.O.E. Military helicopters low level flying called 'nap of the earth'. I enjoyed riding Blackhawk helicopters whenever they did this type of flying. This was the best amusement ride I have ever been on...
Helicopter Page
Saturday, January 22, 2011
Destroying the Middle-Class
Robert Kiyosaki is proposing that currently the ultra-rich are trying to destroy the American Middle-Class and leave this country as a two class system, the haves and have nots.
We're sitting on a ticking time bomb. Be prepared.
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Pixelated Evil
This has to be some of the funniest stuff that I have ever seen. It is set in the 011 District of the Chicago Police Department. I could not stop laughing at this. Things never change in good ole Filmore. Stay safe. Enjoy!
Sunday, January 9, 2011
Tragedy on Democracy
The Tuscon shootings that occurred on January 8, 2011 was a tragedy on our Democracy. It was a horrible action by a very troubled and deranged individual, Jared Lee Loughner. The MSM's treatment of this incident is abhorring. They have gone into their Leftist rhetoric that it was the Republicans and the Tea Party's faulty.
Senator Dick Durbin misstated on CNN that this event occurred because of free speech from Conservatives on talk radio in which he suggested that the offender was influenced for his actions. WHAT? The Progressives spin miesters are hard at work as they take this incident in their desperation to maintain control of their quickly downward spinning of their Marxist agenda. He also started down the failed road of gun control.
It also is an event which shows that law enforcement should stay out of politics when people like Democrat Sheriff Clarence D. Lupkin of Tuscon Arizona supporting laws that only further promote their Leftist agenda. The Progressives have been ignoring the laws that they feel run contrary to their beliefs, such as Arizona's immigration laws. He was also seen on tv, irresponsibly giving blame for this horrible incident that occurred as the fault of talk radio.
The Left is desperate. This individual is not a Tea Party supporter nor a Conservative. He was more of a Progressive then anything else. Jared L. Loughnor was an evil and deranged man. Take a good look at this individuals reading list. I didn't see the Constitution on it but I did see the writings of the Left. This individual was more a Leftwing nutjob just by two of his favorite books being Mien Kampf and the Communist Manifesto.
Jared L. Loughnor's view. You should view it and see what type of person that he was. The Progressives will always have a hard time with evidence.
http://www.youtube.com/profile?feature=iv&user=Classitup10&annotation_id=annotation_564778
Here is CNN blaming this event on Gov. Sarah Palin. This is something that I found interesting. They fear her and they have not stopped attacking her. This is once again more proof of the Marxist leanings of the MSM. CNN did everthing they could to tie this event to Gov. Sarah Palin.. This is very irresponsible reporting by the Leftist MSM but not unusual.
Senator Dick Durbin misstated on CNN that this event occurred because of free speech from Conservatives on talk radio in which he suggested that the offender was influenced for his actions. WHAT? The Progressives spin miesters are hard at work as they take this incident in their desperation to maintain control of their quickly downward spinning of their Marxist agenda. He also started down the failed road of gun control.
It also is an event which shows that law enforcement should stay out of politics when people like Democrat Sheriff Clarence D. Lupkin of Tuscon Arizona supporting laws that only further promote their Leftist agenda. The Progressives have been ignoring the laws that they feel run contrary to their beliefs, such as Arizona's immigration laws. He was also seen on tv, irresponsibly giving blame for this horrible incident that occurred as the fault of talk radio.
The Left is desperate. This individual is not a Tea Party supporter nor a Conservative. He was more of a Progressive then anything else. Jared L. Loughnor was an evil and deranged man. Take a good look at this individuals reading list. I didn't see the Constitution on it but I did see the writings of the Left. This individual was more a Leftwing nutjob just by two of his favorite books being Mien Kampf and the Communist Manifesto.
Jared L. Loughnor's view. You should view it and see what type of person that he was. The Progressives will always have a hard time with evidence.
http://www.youtube.com/profile?feature=iv&user=Classitup10&annotation_id=annotation_564778
Here is CNN blaming this event on Gov. Sarah Palin. This is something that I found interesting. They fear her and they have not stopped attacking her. This is once again more proof of the Marxist leanings of the MSM. CNN did everthing they could to tie this event to Gov. Sarah Palin.. This is very irresponsible reporting by the Leftist MSM but not unusual.
Saturday, January 1, 2011
Rumors of War
Matthew 24:6
This link is an article about current and possible wars this year.
Happy New Years 2011
I'm still continue to wait for the flying cars but all I see is an ever growing government planning for me to drive an electric golf cart. We are already over a decade into the new century and all I see is America in decline. We must continue to do our part to continue to restore the Founding Father's Constitution and rid the heavy burden of the Progressive's Supreme Court Constitution. We must continue to be vigilant because our freedoms are in danger of being lost forever.
God Bless You, Fellow Patriots.
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