February 26, 2008

Food Shortage In The Homeland

(CBS) This is the fourth in a month-long series of reports called "Making Ends Meet" about how families are coping with the tough economy, unemployment and smaller retirement accounts.
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February 21, 2008

Federalism: The Great Lost Concept

Federalism, the binding together loosely of the several states, would serve to prevent the concentration of power in a central government and was a crucial element in the new Republic. The authors of the Constitution wrote strict limits on the national government and strove to protect the rights and powers of the states and the people.

Dividing and keeping separate the legislative, executive, and the judiciary branches, provided the checks and balances thought needed to preserve the Republic the Constitution created and the best way to preserve individual liberty.

- Ron Paul
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February 19, 2008

Draft Pat Buchanan for President 2008

Viking Kittens!

Fear the Northern Dawn!

Never walk
away from home
ahead of your axe and sword.
You can't feel a battle
in your bones
or foresee a fight.

- The Havamal
, Book of Viking Wisdom

Top psychiatrist concludes liberals clinically nuts

WASHINGTON – Just when liberals thought it was safe to start identifying themselves as such, an acclaimed, veteran psychiatrist is making the case that the ideology motivating them is actually a mental disorder.

"Based on strikingly irrational beliefs and emotions, modern liberals relentlessly undermine the most important principles on which our freedoms were founded," says Dr. Lyle Rossiter, author of the new book, "The Liberal Mind: The Psychological Causes of Political Madness." continued..

Ron Paul earns the world’s attention

“I have received more emails than I can count from people around the world who write to say that they wish they could be American citizens in order to have the privilege of voting for Ron Paul.” -Thomas E. Woods, Jr. from Having Fun Doing Good

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February 14, 2008

Obama, Cheney and Bush Are Related!

It is amazing how one family can spawn such statesmen, I'm sure it is all because of their aptitude and great intelligence, right? I mean, it couldn't be nepotism or something even more repugnant and sinister could it? Na, everyone knows they are the most competent leaders we have ever known... right?


Who says Barack Obama doesn't have what it takes to be president? Turns out, he's a distant cousin of both Dick Cheney and George Bush.

The vice president's wife, Lynne Cheney, announced her discovery yesterday while hawking her new book, "Blue Skies, No Fences," on MSNBC.
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February 13, 2008

We will never forget Dresden!

"You guys burnt the place down, turned it into a single column of flame. More people died there in the firestorm, in that one big flame, than died in Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined." --Kurt Vonnegut, Jr

On the evening of February 13, 1945, an orgy of genocide and barbarism began against a defenseless German city, one of the greatest cultural centers of northern Europe. Within less than 14 hours not only was it reduced to flaming ruins, but an estimated one-third of its inhabitants, possibly as many as a half a million, had perished in what was the worst single event massacre of all time.

Although this is clearly biased in that it is a Russian film and they make it a point to absolve Russia of some responsibility by showing what they have done to restore Dresden, there was no better documentary from any western country. In fact in Germany such films are opposed, sometimes through financial extortion, or even imprisonment.
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rememberance

bomber über dresden,
sie kamen in der nacht.
bomber über dresden,
den tod im bombenschacht.
bomber über dresden,
sie brachten euch den tod.
bomber über dresden,
sie brachten euch elend und not.

brennende häuser und schreiende kinder
doch bomber über dresden und sie kamen immer wieder.

bomber über dresden,
sie brachten euch den tod.
bomber über dresden,
sie brachten euch elend und not.
bomber über dresden,
sie kamen in der nacht.
bomber über dresden,
den tod im bombenschacht.

English:
bombers over Dresden,
it came in the night
bomber over Dresden,
death in the bomb pit
bomber over Dresden,
it brought you death
bomber over Dresden,
it brought you misery and emergency.

burning houses and crying children
bombers over Dresden and they came back nevertheless.

bombers over Dresden,
it brought you death
bomber over Dresden,
it brought you misery and emergency
bomber over Dresden, they came in the night
bomber over Dresden, death in the bomb pit

Donna Edwards victory

http://www.donnaedwardsforcongress.com/node/310

The more the merrier. Hope Kucinich can handle the DCCC-corporate-ouster campaign he's facing.

Iraq Body Count

"Support the Troops."

"Ignore the carnage."

February 11, 2008

The March Forward!

Ron Paul: Going the Distance
A campaign update by Ron Paul, as well as a call to arms for all freedom loving Americans. Dr. Paul has asked that his supporters organize a march on Washington. Stay tuned for details.

John McCain... Electable?

Obama’s Flag

Obama’s Flag
Fox 26 in Houston gets some footage of the opening of Barack Obama’s Houston offices. And look at what’s up there on the wall:
Yes, that’s a Cuban flag, emblazoned with an image of Che Guevara, Fidel Castro’s old comrade in Communist terror. (Two good books on the real Che, not the sanitized Hollywood myth, are Alvaro Vargas Llosa’s The Che Guevara Myth and Humberto Fontova’s Exposing the Real Che Guevara.)
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CA: Worse than Florida 2000?

Following the voting in CA last Tuesday, five times as many voters in CA are now being disenfranchised than in Palm Beach County's "hanging chad" catastrophe of 2000.

L.A. County registrar, Dean Logan, knew this would happen ahead of time -- because a lawyer for the Courage Campaign warned him in a detailed letter prior to the primary.

I bet this Logan guy was one of the registrars that was complaining when anti-Diebold Atty. General Debra Bowen put the axe to the non-verifiable, hackable electronic voting machines.

I'd like to find out who this jerk Logan works for. He is refusing to hand-count the "double-bubble" ballots.

If anyone has anything, please post here.


Pelosi & AIPAC put the Squeeze on Kucinich!

Pelosi & AIPAC put the Squeeze on Kucinich!
We received a phone call today from a source in the Kucinich for President campaign, telling us there’s more to the story of Rep. Kucinich’s withdrawal than is publicly known. continued...

Who did your parents vote for

A new study says political leaning is linked to genetics. No wonder I want to burn witches...

February 5, 2008

My Brain Hurts

The Brain Age guy is a hero to the thinking man. God bless him...


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'It's going to be much worse'

'It's going to be much worse'

Famed investor Jim Rogers sees hard times ahead for the United States - and a big opportunity looming in China.

NEW YORK (Fortune) -- You might expect Jim Rogers to be gloating a little bit. After all, the famed investor has been predicting a recession in the U.S. economy for months and shorting the shares of now-tanking Wall Street investment banks for even longer. And with fears of a recession sparking both a worldwide market sell-off and emergency action from Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke, Rogers again looks prescient - just as he has over the past few years as the China-driven commodities boom he predicted almost a decade ago began kicked into high gear. But when I reached him by phone in Singapore the other day there was little hint of celebration in his voice. Instead, he took a serious tone. Do Read On...

I hate to say it but, I told yo...nevermind, this isn't the type of thing that it's good to be right about.

"Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death"

No man thinks more highly than I do of the patriotism, as well as abilities, of the very worthy gentlemen who have just addressed the House. But different men often see the same subject in different lights; and, therefore, I hope that it will not be thought disrespectful to those gentlemen, if, entertaining as I do opinions of a character very opposite to theirs, I shall speak forth my sentiments freely and without reserve.

This is no time for ceremony. The question before the House is one of awful moment to this country. For my own part I consider it as nothing less than a question of freedom or slavery; and in proportion to the magnitude of the subject ought to be the freedom of the debate. It is only in this way that we can hope to arrive at truth, and fulfill the great responsibility which we hold to God and our country. Should I keep back my opinions at such a time, through fear of giving offense, I should consider myself as guilty of treason towards my country, and of an act of disloyalty towards the majesty of heaven, which I revere above all earthly kings.

Mr. President, it is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren, till she transforms us into beasts. Is this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty? Are we disposed to be of the number of those who, having eyes, see not, and having ears, hear not, the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation?

For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth -- to know the worst and to provide for it. I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided; and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past. And judging by the past, I wish to know what there has been in the conduct of the British ministry for the last ten years, to justify those hopes with which gentlemen have been pleased to solace themselves and the House?

Is it that insidious smile with which our petition has been lately received? Trust it not, sir; it will prove a snare to your feet. Suffer not yourselves to be betrayed with a kiss. Ask yourselves how this gracious reception of our petition comports with these warlike preparations which cover our waters and darken our land. Are fleets and armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation? Have we shown ourselves so unwilling to be reconciled that force must be called in to win back our love? Let us not deceive ourselves, sir. These are the implements of war and subjugation -- the last arguments to which kings resort. I ask gentlemen, sir, what means this martial array, if its purpose be not to force us to submission? Can gentlemen assign any other possible motives for it? Has Great Britain any enemy, in this quarter of the world, to call for all this accumulation of navies and armies?

No, sir, she has none. They are meant for us; they can be meant for no other. They are sent over to bind and rivet upon us those chains which the British ministry have been so long forging. And what have we to oppose to them? Shall we try argument? Sir, we have been trying that for the last ten years. Have we anything new to offer on the subject? Nothing.

We have held the subject up in every light of which it is capable; but it has been all in vain. Shall we resort to entreaty and humble supplication? What terms shall we find which have not been already exhausted? Let us not, I beseech you, sir, deceive ourselves longer.

Sir, we have done everything that could be done to avert the storm which is now coming on. We have petitioned; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves before the throne, and have implored its interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the ministry and Parliament.

Our petitions have been slighted; our remonstrances have produced additional violence and insult; our supplications have been disregarded; and we have been spurned, with contempt, from the foot of the throne. In vain, after these things, may we indulge the fond hope of peace and reconciliation. There is no longer any room for hope.

If we wish to be free -- if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending -- if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained, we must fight! I repeat it, sir, we must fight! An appeal to arms and to the God of Hosts is all that is left us!

They tell us, sir, that we are weak -- unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week, or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house? Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction? Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance, by lying supinely on our backs, and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot?

Sir, we are not weak, if we make a proper use of the means which the God of nature hath placed in our power. Three millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us. Besides, sir, we shall not fight our battles alone. There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us.

The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable -- and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come!

It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, "Peace! Peace!" -- but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!

Patrick Henry - March 23, 1775

Schoolhouse Rock - The Shot Heard 'Round the World

February 4, 2008

FBI wants palm prints, eye scans, tattoo mapping

CLARKSBURG, West Virginia (CNN) -- The FBI is gearing up to create a massive computer database of people's physical characteristics, all part of an effort the bureau says to better identify criminals and terrorists.

But it's an issue that raises major privacy concerns -- what one civil liberties expert says should concern all Americans. continued...


It looks like the New World Order is in full swing. How long will you wait to take a stand? When they come and get your neighbor? Your brother? Yourself? How many of our rights have to be violated? We are Americans, this is what we fought against in the revolutionary war, and we have let our leaders throw it all away without so much as a whimper.

I keep forgetting how valuable PBS is

Clinton Won't Commit To Renew Constitution!

CLINTON WON'T COMMIT TO RENEW CONSTITUTION...

Illinois Senator Barack Obama has finally signed the American Freedom Pledge, joining his fellow Democratic presidential candidates in encouraging the restoration of basic Constitutional principles after the battering they have taken during the Bush-Cheney era.

All the Democrats, that is, except New York Senator Hillary Clinton.
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February 3, 2008

Israelis told to prepare 'rocket rooms' for war

Israelis told to prepare 'rocket rooms' for war

Retired senior officers told Israelis on Saturday to prepare "rocket rooms" as protection against a rain of missiles expected to be fired at the Jewish state in any future conflict.
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February 1, 2008

Third undersea cable reportedly cut, Iran has lost internet connectivity

Third undersea cable reportedly cut between Sri Lanka, Suez

DUBAI (Zawya Dow Jones)--A third undersea fibre optic cable running through the Suez to Sri Lanka was cut Friday, said a Flag official.
Two other fiber optic cables owned by Flag Telecom and consortium SEA-ME-WE 4 located near Alexandria, Egypt, were damaged Wednesday leading to a slowdown in Internet and telephone services in the Middle East and South Asia. continued...

Internet Traffic Report here.

Reportedly, Iraq and Israel are unaffected. Accidental cutting of lines, or strategic cutting of lines?

UFO Hoaxes.

I have to say, I've seen that triangular shaped Stealth-like aircraft with round white lights underneath.

Iraq Myths

Trap Set to Blame Progressives for Iraq Debacle?

The Greatest Grassroots Campaign in Political History: IGNORED BY BIG MEDIA

The greatest grassroots campaign in the history of American politics has been summarily ignored and shunned by the large media.

Yes, you read that right. The greatest grassroots campaign in the HISTORY OF AMERICAN POLITICS. IGNORED BY THE MEDIA.

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