Archive for the ‘Government’ Category
Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011
From our friend B.
The following represents the reality of the "Hope and Change" Agenda of the Obama Administration. This simple chart is a summary of the accomplishments of this administration.
Two years ago, Barack Obama was inaugurated as President of the United States . Are you better off today than ...
Posted in Economics, Government, History, Politics, Taxes | 1 Comment »
Monday, January 24th, 2011
Leftist Pols are mostly leftist in order to grasp the levers of political power.Poor Rahm "never let a crisis go to waste" Emanuel has been booted off the Chicago Mayoral/Graft ballot. Imagine the gall of Illinoisans and Chicagoans to want their Mayoral candidates to have actually LIVED IN the city ...
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Sunday, January 16th, 2011
The New York Times reports that the Stuxnet worm, destroyer of Iranian centrifuges, may well have come, as many (including this writer) thought, from a nation-state. NYT describes the worm's breeding as an joint American-Israeli venture, one specifically aimed at crippling the type of centrifuges Iran uses to enrich uranium. ...
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Tuesday, January 4th, 2011
Back in 1981, the air traffic controllers' union, PACTO, made the mistake of testing the mettle of newly-elected President Ronald Reagan by going out on an unlawful strike. (Note: 'unlawful,' because an 'illegal' is a sick bird.) President Reagan refused to have air travel in this country held hostage to ...
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Friday, December 10th, 2010
As the Brit youths rage against having other peoples' monies not given to them (in the same amount) you can see a visual aid as to how collectivist sheople engage in political debate
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Thursday, December 2nd, 2010
OK, GM-haters, try this out for size:
"The Fed's efforts to prop up the financial sector reached across a broad spectrum of the economy, benefiting stalwarts of American industry including General Electric and Caterpillar and household-name companies such as Verizon,Harley-Davidson and Toyota. The central bank's aid programs also supported U.S. subsidiaries of ...
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Tuesday, November 30th, 2010
Cicero famously asked, "Qui bono?" If he asked that today about the latest Wikileaks document dump, he would conclude that the major beneficiaries include the neo-cons and their allies who want war with Iran, as the secrets revealed include materials such as Arab leaders calling on us to stop Iran ...
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Friday, November 19th, 2010
Imagine paying a price far above any other standard expenditure.
Imagine then being bored, cramped and inconvenienced.
Add in imagining the equivalent of a convenience store clerk ogling your wife/husband/children and occasionally groping them as well.
Sorry, when I invest money in a purchase I expect quality, service and a modicum of interest ...
Posted in Activism, Government, Terror | 3 Comments »
Sunday, October 24th, 2010
It seems that some of the big banks, who may have received billions in bailouts (though who can say, since the details are too secret to share with those who must pay for all of it), now that they're back on their feet, are buying up tax liens and then ...
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Monday, September 13th, 2010
Someone posted this cynical, hip-hop explanation of the legislative process, ca. 2010, on YouTube. They explain government a lot better than my high school textbook did! Enjoy (or weep, over what your government has become)!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEe1nWxGb5s&feature=related
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