“That Scott down there that’s running for governor of Florida. Instead of running for governor of Florida, they ought to have him and shoot him.” Former Rep Paul Kanjorski, D-PA, October 23, 2010.
An Oddity on the Giffords’ shooting
If you look at http://www.youtube.com/user/giffords2, you will note under the “Subscriptions (2)” section that the Giffords YouTube channel that she is subscribed to two other channels. One of which is Classitup10 (http://www.youtube.com/user/Classitup10) which is the nut-job, Jared Lee Loughner’s YouTube channel.
What in the world is going on that she was subscribed to his YouTube channel?
Screenshots to follow.
Bloggers blame Sarah Palin for Gabrielle Giffords shooting
After seeing bloggers trying to blame Sarah Palin for the Gabrielle Giffords shooting today, a few facts should be stated:
1. Jared Lee Loughner lists among his favorite books Mein Kampf and the Communist Manifesto on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/user/Classitup10). None of those would be listed by any Republican or Tea Partier as favorite books. Both favor a large, central, all-powerful government controlling the citizens.
2. Jared Lee Loughner’s High School friend on twitter (http://twitter.com/caitieparker) says he was a “left wing” pot head.
3. Jared Lee Loughner writes using the terms “B.C.E”. Loughner hated “In God We Trust.” Both of which show he is not a Christian.
4. Loughner is reportedly a registered “independent”.
5. Loughner shot and killed a Republican Federal Judge. Does that make him a Democrat?
6. CNN used the name “Crossfire” for a show for nearly 25 years (1982-2005). That is 23 years of indoctrinating people to think of political debate as “Crossfire”.
[Update] 7. Loughner had sent Representative Giffords a letter in 2007. More than a year prior to Sarah Palin being a household name.
[Update 1/12/2010] 8. “He did not watch TV. He disliked the news. He didn’t listen to political radio” according to a friend.
Update 1/17/2010] 9. The New York Times reports that Loughner was a Present Bush hater – “His anger would well up at the sight of President George W. Bush”.
Saying Sarah Palin is to blame, the Tea Party, the Republican party – or for that matter the Democratic party – is nuts. It sounds like something that this nut job would say! The blame belongs with an insane killer. No one else. But don’t let any facts get in the way of a good smear.
Concentrate on the victims, not trying to pin it on someone else.
Regarding the Communist Manifesto, Conservatives generally want small government with power widely distributed and closer to the voter with most decisions left to the individual. (The left wing wants larger, more centralized government. Once the differences are stated it becomes clear that one side wants power in government, the other freedom to the people. Groups that want large government are the fascists, socialists, and communists – in other words statists and dictators like the Nazi Socialists, the USSR, Mao’s Socialists. All of whom were willing to kill millions of people in order to establish their social order. All of whom wanted a strong, central, powerful government in order to impose their will on everyone else “for their own good.”
The choice is easy: freedom or government. Life and liberty vs power and control.
Mask or not, if you hunt without a prenup, pack some ketchup for the dung. – Chuck Lorre
Before Undoogoo would venture into the jungle to begin his daily hunt, he would don a mask to confuse his prey. Not a mask meant to frighten. No, Undoogoo’s mask was pleasant to look at, designed to trick his quarry into thinking that he was harmless. In this way, Undoogoo was able to get close and strike a lethal blow. Which is exactly what he had in mind the day he spied a beautiful creature drinking at a watering hole. Hiding behind his benign facade, he positioned himself alongside his intended victim and prepared to attack. But what Undoogoo didn’t know was that this “beautiful creature” was also wearing a mask. A mask that successfully camouflaged a fierce and merciless predator. And so it was that Undoogoo suddenly found himself being devoured, torn apart, eviscerated!
Bitcoin is a tool for freedom
Bitcoin is a tool for freedom and will therefore be opposed by any of the statists, communists, socialists, crony-capitalists, fascists – in short any type of authoritarians – who want to monitor and control you. Anyone with a vested interest in the hidden tax on the poor and middle class through inflation will oppose bitcoin. Anyone who doesn’t believe in freedom of movement will oppose bitcoin because it helps people be free to change geographic locations.
The power-hungry politicians and their lap dogs in the press will oppose bitcoin because it threatens them and returns power to the people.
Check it out for yourself.
Why has the president himself not demanded they put out the original documents?
Matthews talked about putting the birth certificate controversy surrounding President Obama to rest:
“Why has the president himself not demanded they put out the original documents?” Matthews wonders.
“If it exists, why not put it out?” Chris Matthews asks.
None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. — John Milton
None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. — John Milton
the governing rights of the States are all of those which have not been surrendered to the National Government by the Constitution or its amendments.
“As a matter of fact and law, the governing rights of the States are all of those which have not been
surrendered to the National Government by the Constitution or its amendments. Wisely or unwisely,
people know that under the Eighteenth Amendment Congress has been given the right to legislate on this particular subject, but this is not the case in the matter of a great number of other vital problems of government, such as the conduct of public utilities, of banks, of insurance, of business, of agriculture, of education, of social welfare and of a dozen other important features. In these, Washington must not be encouraged to interfere.”Franklin Delano Roosevelt speech on the Volstead Act, March 3, 1930, New York Times. Two years before becoming President and taking the opposite view.
The great corrupter of the American constitutional republic is government ignoring its Constitutional bounds
Mort Zuckerman makes some good points in his USNews commentary, but misses the boat with his comments on money in politics.
Money is a tool. The problem occurs when the government is everywhere, then politics is everywhere. When politics is everywhere, the fight for political power becomes crucial. With no limits on their power, politicians in Washington become power-hungry. The Founders understood this which was why the created a government of limited, enumerated powers. Once the concept of enumerated powers was lost, freedom began down the long road of decline.
When politics and government are everywhere instead of individuals making their own decisions based in their freedom to do so, the freedom of the individual is lost. Every election becomes about someone wanting to control someone else. Every election will be more polarized than the last because many people do not want someone else making their decisions for them. Polarization is good when one side wants to control and the other side wants freedom. Compromise with your destroyers still results in you being destroyed, just slower than out-right surrender.
In short, MONEY is NOT the great corrupter of “American democracy,” but merely a symptom. The great corrupter of the American constitutional republic is government ignoring its Constitutional bounds which allows power-hungry politicians the opening they need to take as much power as they can.
Compromising on Liberty is a loss for everyone, like taking a little poison.
Compromising on liberty is a loss for everyone. Compromising on freedom is like saying “no” to taking a dose poison, but then deciding to take just a little poison each time compromise is required. The poison will kill you eventually, it will just take more time than one full dose to start. Poisoning the tree of liberty will kill freedom, just slower than an ax.