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News and Comment that I found interesting this morning….

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010

First up Walter E. Williams, article Who Poses the Greater Threat?
As always Mr.Williams ask some tough questions and gives some honest answers…. What is really scary about this, is that so few people really think about what game the Politicians are playing…Just a small taste of his article for the full story go here

Politicians love pitting us against the rich. All by themselves, the rich have absolutely no power over us. To rip us off, they need the might of Congress to rig the economic game. It’s a slick political sleight-of-hand where politicians and their allies amongst the intellectuals, talking heads and the news media get us caught up in the politics of envy as part of their agenda for greater control over our lives.

Next up is from Flopping Aces Did Obama Attempt to Bribe a Congressman?
While there is nothing at this point that really shocks me that Politicians try to do, its a shame that We as a Nation have sunk so low. Please don’t get me wrong both parties are guilty of this. However President Obama and his party are the ones in power at this time…..

Rep Joe Sestak (D-PA) reports that the White House offered him a high ranking job if he would drop his primary bid against Arlen Specter in the Senate race in Pennsylvania.

full story here

Not shocking anyone, Rangel refuse’s to step down as the House Ways and Means Committee Chairman, until the House ethics committee completes its investigation into a number of alleged rules violations. This despite Nancy Pelosi’s statements about having a clean and open Congress once the Democrats took office. Story is here from CNN and here from FOX

Sadly that’s not all, We have also insulted are biggest supporter in the World and in my opinion our only Ally that has stuck with us through thick and thin. There was no reason for the United States to get involved in the Falklands Islands, since the inhabitants are British Citizens and from everything I have read wish to remain that way… Story is here


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War budget and Free Country

Friday, May 8th, 2009

Obama’s $130 Billion War Budget Based on ‘Best Estimates’

Now President Obama will have to face the same challenges President Bush did. This time instead of being from the other side of the isle lets see how loud the Democrats complain as well as how tough the “standards for progress” are.

WASHINGTON — President Obama’s proposed defense budget includes $130 billion for the nation’s two wars, a figure that may not be enough.

And his Democratic allies in Congress are threatening to set conditions that must be met before that money is handed out.

Obama sent to Congress on Thursday details of his proposed $664 billion Pentagon spending plan for the budget year starting in October. It includes $534 billion for base defense programs and $130 billion for overseas operations, including the wars he’s ramping down in Iraq and ramping up in Afghanistan.

The budget aims to cover what the Defense Department needs “to fight the wars we are in today and the scenarios we are most likely to face in the years ahead, while at the same time providing a hedge against other risks and contingencies,” Defense Secretary Robert Gates said in a statement released in Washington as he traveled in Afghanistan.

The $130 billion for overseas missions included $65 billion for Afghanistan and $61 billion for Iraq — the first time spending for the seven-year-old Afghan campaign has surpassed the one in Iraq.

“This request is where you’re going to first see the swing of not only dollars or resources but … capability from the Iraqi theater into the Afghanistan theater,” Navy Vice Adm. Steve Stanley, director of force structure for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told a Pentagon news conference.

A Pentagon summary of the budget request said the war spending proposal “is intended to fund all currently known requirements for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan for the entire fiscal year.”

via Fox News

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An Average Day in a Free Country

This is funny in a way, just one mans daily dealing with Government

I am fairly vocal amongst my friends (and a few strangers) regarding my bias towards limited government. The typical response I get is something along the lines of, “Are you crazy, America is the freest country in the world!” I think the secondhand dealers in information (public school teachers and the sensationalist media amongst others) have done a great job of indoctrinating the general population into believing that we are truly free. They really don’t notice the subtle effects of a new law here and a new regulation there. It’s kind of like the curse of income tax withholding where by stealing our hard-earned money a little bit at a time (each paycheck) we don’t notice that we are being robbed. I feel that our freedom is being stolen a little bit at a time. To help drive home the point, I’ll use an average day in my life as an example.

My alarm goes off each morning somewhere between 6 and 7 am. I am not a big fan of the buzzer so I typically set my alarm to “radio” mode. I haven’t paid up for satellite radio, so I still wake up to “Free FM.” Well, I am awake for a whole 10 seconds and here is my first interaction with Big Brother. The beast known as the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has a complete stranglehold on what we hear over the radio waves. As is the case with the majority of government regulation, we supposedly need the FCC to “protect” the people. In this particular case, we are being protected from offensive material on the airwaves. Of course, “offensive” is defined by whoever happens to be calling the shots at the FCC at the time.

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Susan Roesgen’s “cutting room floor” moments…. from Flopping Aces

Friday, April 17th, 2009

Below from Flopping Aces
Susan Roesgen’s “cutting room floor” moments….

Posted by: MataHarley @ 4:54 pm in Uncategorized

Well well, we’re all familiar with the hysterical and opinionated Susan Roesgen’s CNN blip while at the Chicago Tea Party on tax day from Wordsmith’s post below. What you may not have seen is the aftermath…. what did not make it on the air since it was exclusively filmed by Founding Bloggers.

The aftermath footage starts about 2 minutes in, after the CNN aired segment. Ordinary citizens used their free speech rights to let Ms. Roesgen know just how they felt about her news coverage. One might say they grabbed Ms. Roegen’s pitchfork and got in a few stabs of their own.

And a H/T to NewsBusters for the heads on up this footage.

As mon pal, Aye Chi, likes to say… “roll the tape”…

As you can see, this pretty much eliminates peoples arguments about CNN being a real news channel. Note that the CNN cameras were still rolling tape, yet they failed to air the second half of the video. Should be no shock to anyone who has been paying attention to the way the Media shapes the “news” instead of reports it. :(

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