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Dark place where the numbers come from

Posted by drik on Thursday, September 01, 2011 1:29:01 PM
We found out where the number 2.5 million jobs' created or saved' comes from.  It comes from a formula.  The formula comes from a theory.  The theory says that for every dollar the government spends, 1.5 dollars' worth of economic activity is generated, and presto, jobs come out.  The economic geniuses working for Obama want us to believe that by definition, since they spent almost a trillion dollars in 'stimulus', they automatically created 2.4 million jobs.  This is called the multiplier effect._Karen McQuillan-American Thinker Magazine
 
The government uses a different multiplier for every expenditure that it makes.  Where does it get the numbers that it uses?  According to the CBO, the estimations that it uses are basically made up as they go along.
 
Sure hope the government remembers to wash its hands after pulling numbers out of there.
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All the separation we can stand

Posted by drik on Thursday, September 01, 2011 1:11:26 PM
"Separation of church and state"

Out of the over 17,000 pages  that he generated in his lifetime, that we know of, Jefferson made a reference to this one time in a January 1, 1802 letter of reply that he made to the Danbury Conneticut Baptist Association.

That single sentence was picked up by the Supreme Court in 1879 and determined that this phrase "may be accepted almost as an authoritative declaration of the scope and effect of the [First] Amendment."

It has been used by secularists and atheists ever since as justification for all of their efforts to exclude God from the government and from anything and everything that the government touches in America. This exclusion is not supported by the records left by any of Jefferson's other writings or the writings of the other founders.
 
"The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity. I will avow that I then believed, and now believe, that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence and attributes of God."
--Adams wrote this on June 28, 1813, in a letter to Thomas Jefferson.
 
"While we are zealously performing the duties of good citizens and soldiers, we certainly ought not to be inattentive to the higher duties of religion. To the distinguished character of Patriot, it should be our highest glory to add the more distinguished character of Christian."
--The Writings of Washington, pp. 342-343.
 
"No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the invisible hand, which conducts in the affairs of men more than the people of the United States. Every step, by which they have been advanced to the character of an independent nation, seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency." -- George Washington
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Are we there yet?

Posted by drik on Thursday, September 01, 2011 12:48:28 PM
"[O]nly a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters."_Ben Franklin
 
Our founders were not fans of religions. They were, however, quite clear that a government and a country that did not acknowlege and worship God would not long survive. The separation of church and state that they so earnestly sought was to prevent the endorsement of a specific church, not the exclusion of God. They had already seen the bloodbath culmination of a secular athiestic society in France with the French Revolution and were disinclined to set up a poor copy of the same thing.

Why is it not enough to say about evolution "that we don't know"?
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Which "us" is they talking about?

Posted by drik on Wednesday, August 31, 2011 11:12:15 PM
“The important theme is to show the world how much we realize that 9/11 — the attacks themselves and violent extremism writ large — is not ‘just about us.” _New York Times, commenting on the 9./11 guidelines issued and sent to all govenment workers and to countries around the world as the federal government prepares for the 9/11 remembrance event.
 
"Us" is the only ones that got attacked on 9/11.
 
And the honoring ceremony is not allowing any of the folks that were first responders, even those that lost their co-workers, nor any representatives of any religion.  Maybe the folks that were actually there and the folks that saw an attack on our religions as well as our countrymen should have their own ceremony, away from the pomp and posturing of Presbo's pony show.
 
I'll bet that George W. would come. 
 
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The American System

Posted by drik on Wednesday, August 31, 2011 10:05:19 PM
The folks who are getting free stuff,
Don't like the folks who are paying for the free stuff,
Because the folks who are paying for the free stuff,
Can no longer afford to pay for both the free stuff and their own stuff.

And,
The folks who are paying for the free stuff,
Want the free stuff to stop.
And the folks who are getting the free stuff,
Want even MORE free stuff on top of the free stuff they're getting already!

Now.....
The people who are forcing  people to PAY for the free stuff,
Have told the people who are RECEIVING the free stuff,
That the people who are PAYING for the free stuff,
Are being mean, prejudiced and racist.

So ....
The people who are GETTING the free stuff,
Have been convinced they need to HATE the people who are
PAYING for the free stuff because they are selfish.
And they are promised more free stuff if they will vote for
the people who force the people who pay for the free stuff
to  give them even more free stuff.
 
Doesn't end well.
 
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The new sherriff

Posted by drik on Wednesday, August 31, 2011 2:58:38 PM
Presbo's latest new chief economic advisor is Alan Kreuger.
 
Alan has been working at the Treasury Department for the last 2 years. He also worked as Clinton's chief labor economist back in the 1990s.  As the Treasury's chief economist, he has been responsible for analyzing and giving major input on:  giving employers tax incentives to hire, "Cash for Clunkers," the Small Business Lending Fund, and "Build America" muni bonds.  These programs have ranged form non-effectual to unmitigated disasters.  He apparantly came by this inability to analyze honestly.  In 1992, he was co-author of a study that said that raising minimum wages leads to more hiring, the exact opposite to what has happened when the current administration manipulated the minimum wage. 
 
40% unemployment among black youth who cannot get a job at the new, more expensive minimum wage.
 
Now he has been advocating a Value Added Tax, where a tax is added every time something is done in the production of a good.  This would normally be a consumption tax but he is advocating it in ADDITION to our existing tax code.  But he does have a little more awareness of the problems associated with this program.  He wrote in 2009 that the main downside of the VAT is that it supresses economic activity. 
 
Bet they do it anyway.
 
Wonder how long he will stay before he realizes that being associated with the non-sensical economic policies of Presbo will damage forever his ability to get a job in the real world or even in academia.  And bails.
 
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FOB_The Wrong Stuff

Posted by drik on Wednesday, August 31, 2011 12:14:02 PM
Raids have been conducted on Gibson Guitar Company by Fish and Wildlife "Service" agents coming in with guns drawn and seizing pallets of wood, electronic records, and guitars.  Manufacturing facilities have had manufacturing disrupted and their cash flow diminished, and the employees frightened.  The claim by the Department of "Justice" under the auspices of Eric Holder, is that some of the parts of the guitars being made at these facilities contain the "wrong kind of wood".
 
No matter that this is the exact same wood that is being used to make guitars by almost every guitar manufacturer in the country.  No matter that no US laws have been broken.  The DOJ believes that the wood imported may not have been "finished" by Indian workers.  Which means that the wood would have sat in an Indian warehouse and an extra fee collected before the pallet was stamped "finished" and then exported, per the newest laws in India.
 
Seems that 100 years ago, in the progressive era, under progressive McKinley, the US Congress passed something called the Lacey act, which made it a crime for a US company to violate laws of other countries.  The intent was to limit the illegal trade in protected wildlife, not to make sure that everyone gets a cut of anything that is exported. 
 
Even if Gibson wasn't the only American guitar manufacturer that gave a big campaign donation to Huckkabee and has advocated support of the Repubs, we still have far too many real problems in this country for the DOJ to be playing around harrassing folks who are not FOB(Friends of Barack).  They are the Department of Justice, not the Department of Social Justice.  If the DOJ wants to be spending  their time enforcing Indian laws, they should be doing it in India, and we should NOT be having to pay them a salary from American tax dollars for them to do it.
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The Party of the Rich

Posted by drik on Wednesday, August 31, 2011 11:54:41 AM

[The richest member of Congress is Republican California Rep. Darrell Issa, whose net worth is estimated to be in excess of $250 million. He's followed by four Democrats: California's Jane Harman (approx. $245 million), Wisconsin's Herb Kohl (approx. $215 million), Virginia's Mark Warner (approx. $210 million) and Massachusetts' John Kerry (approx. $209 million).

Among the top 25 wealthiest legislators – which includes boldface names Nancy Pelosi, Dianne Feinstein and Olympia Snowe – there are 14 Democrats and 11 Republicans.
 
[Democrats now control the majority of the nation's wealthiest congressional jurisdictions. More than half of the wealthiest households are concentrated in the 18 states where Democrats control both Senate seats.

This new political demography holds true in the House of Representatives, where the leadership of each party hails from different worlds. Nancy Pelosi, Democratic leader of the House of Representatives, represents one of America's wealthiest regions. Her San Francisco district has more than 43,700 high-end households. Fewer than 7,000 households in the western Ohio district of House Republican leader John Boehner enjoy this level of affluence.]

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Maneuvering at the ATF

Posted by drik on Wednesday, August 31, 2011 7:35:17 AM
Every party in the ATF that has been identified in the press as being involved in the gun smuggling Fast asn Furious operation has been moved around to a different location.
 
"thimblerig", which we now call a shell game, was originally played with thimbles, a pea, and a number of shills who would cluster around the operator to lend an air of legitimacy, to shield the process from eyes that might be able to tell what is really going on, and to go through the motions of either clumsily guessing correctly or clumsily wrongly so that the mark (that's us), cannot tell what is really going on.

The key in the classic form is that the mark (us) invests his money and hopes and earnestness in going along with the process and trying to follow the movements to make the correct choice.  The key part of the play is that it doesn't really matter what the mark ends up choosing.   The master manipulator of the Fast and Furious program isn't under any of the shells.
 
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The war of (Northern) Aggression

Posted by drik on Tuesday, August 30, 2011 11:13:08 PM
The Civil War was not about slavery.
 
Had it had been, the South would have had no reason not to accept Lincoln’s bribe of the Corwin Amendment
 
This amendment, passed by the 36th Congress, 2nd Session, on March 2, 1861, in the form of a House (Joint) Resolution No. 80. It forbid subsequent attempts to amend the Constitution to empower the Congress to "abolish or interfere" with the "domestic institutions" of the states, including "persons held to labor or service".  In other words, it would have FOREVER protected slavery.  The purpose was to motivate the southern states to not seccede.
 
This offering from the administration was rejected because the devisive issue was unfair tariffs, not slavery. The South was paying from 75% to 85% of the U.S. government revenues.  Lincoln  invaded the South to force them back into the union so he would not lose his tariffs.  He did it "to preserve the union".  The reality that he was not preserving was that the remaining part of the United States was not generating enough revenue for the government to survive on by itself, there being no income tax at the time. 
 
Without the south, he was soon to be out of a job. 
 
Sort of the same situation that the current adminstration is in with the remaining taxpayers.
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Unpresidented. Or maybe not.

Posted by drik on Tuesday, August 30, 2011 10:15:13 PM
B. Todd Jones, the U.S. attorney for the District of Minnesota, will replace Kenneth Melson, the acting director at the ATF, who was in charge when the Fast and Furious gun smuggling fiasco into Mexico was operating.  Mr. Melson will not be fired, but instead will take a downward step to a position of lesser responsibility.
The new guy, Mr. Jones, will not resign from his current job.  Instead he will manage to do BOTH jobs at the same time.  Pretty incredible, since Mr. Melson apparrantly couldn't manage the ATF directorship corrrectly even doing it full time, at least if he was actually making all the decisions himself.
 
Wow.  This new guy must be really GOOOOD. 
 
Or a puppet.
 
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Not that he's fat but Al Gore has his own weather

Posted by drik on Tuesday, August 30, 2011 12:32:53 PM
 CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, one of the world’s largest centres for scientific research involving 60 countries and 8,000 scientists at more than 600 universities and national laboratories. CERN is the organization that invented the World Wide Web, that built the multi-billion dollar Large Hadron Collider, has now published a study in NATURE magazine that detailed how 63 CERN scientists from 17 European and American institutes have demonstrated that cosmic rays promote the formation of molecules that in Earth’s atmosphere can grow and seed clouds, causing the atmosphere to be cloudier and thus cooler.  Because the sun’s magnetic field regulates how many cosmic rays reach Earth by sheilding it, the sun determines the temperature on Earth.  Stronger magnetic field from the sun = fewer cosmic rays.
 
It has taken 10 years for these results to be completed and made public, because the global warmers have been pressuring western govenments that control CERN to not go forward with this research, so it has been suspended all that time.  Unlike the theory that the climate is controlled by man's activities, the effect shown in this research is so huge that it is many orders of magnitude greater than anything mankind has been capable of doing.  We are but a flea on the elephant.
 
So naturally the global warming crowd has not wanted this to be publicized or given any creedance.  And the people who revolve around Al Gore, who would still stand to make billions if he could but have his way with the CO2 licensing scheme, are nashing teeth and wailing about the lost earth and the lost money, since they are having to settle for mere millions from the alocytes of this discredited religion.
 
(Al still thinks that HE invented the World Wide Web)
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What's wrong with those people?

Posted by drik on Tuesday, August 30, 2011 12:06:15 PM
Currently 17% of the country thinks that the federal government is doing a fine job.
 
63% of the country thinks that the federal government is doing a poor or horrible job.
 
20% think that American Idle has continued to reach new highs in the talent they showcase.
 
The questions, what does the government have to do that it hasn't yet done that would shake the opinion of that apparantly brain dead 17%?   And if there are that few people that actually agree with the overall picture of what the government is doing, how long will the government get to keep doing it without the consent of the governed?
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Betting on a darker horse

Posted by drik on Monday, August 29, 2011 10:08:16 PM
Libya traditionally has consisted of tribes.
Ghaddaffi comes from one of those tribes.
Calling the country Libya is fine but it would be as appropriate to call it Ghadaffi Arabia, since he had conquered the country in much the same way that King Saud conquered the tribes that he made into Saudi Arabia.
The rebels, the ones that are not Al Queda, come from the other arab tribes in Libya.
Ghaddaffi's construction projects required much more labor than was available in Libya.
To fix this problem, he imported workers. 
The majority of the immigrant workers were blacks from Sub-Saharan Africa, Sudan, Ethiopia, Mauritania,and Mali.
Now the rebel winners, groups of arabs that apparantly don't answer to Obama or anyone, and no longer restrained by Ghaddafi, are rounding up every black they can find in Tripoli and the towns Abu Salim and Zawiyah, tying their hands behind them, and executing them on the spot.  A little racist-supporting collateral damage.  Reminds me of an aphorism about the devil you know being better than the devil you don't.
 
Genocide, courtesy of the good ol' US of A.  The devil, you say!  On the plus side, Congress is not on the hook for this, since they didn't get to vote to wage war there.  Unless they can be blamed for sitting back and doing nothing while Presbo did. 
 
Good thing they can't ask for that Peace Prize back. 
 
 
 
 
 
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It's like he's sort of a god

Posted by drik on Monday, August 29, 2011 12:36:26 PM
" this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal"_B. Obama 2008
 
That apparantly is exactly what has happened.  Researchers from NASA monitored the ocean’s width, height, temperature and salinity through satellites and robot-operated floats, and presented their findings Aug. 8 and 9 at the annual Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) Science Team Meeting in Austin, Tex.  Seems that global sea levels are a quarter of an inch lower this summer than last summer.
 
So all of the global warming crowd can rest easy.  There will be no massive rising of the oceans and inundation of Al Gore's $9 million beachfront condo.
 
All that had to happen was that Presbo took office and the oceans have retreated.  Hadn't even had to do any of those billions of dollars of carbon dioxide generation licensing and stock trading credits that was supposedly so critical to saving the planet even if it had the coincident side effect of lining the pockets of many of the lib/prog politicians and their supporters.  And this has happened even before the EPA has had a chance to follow through with its plans to shut down 20% of our coal-fired electricity generation. 
 
Planet saved, just by having Presbo move in as golfer-in-chief.
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