tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49629697893921871982012-03-02T12:18:01.776-08:00Kakistocracy: Government by the least qualified or least principled citizens.Karl Uppianohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04857875236624845139noreply@blogger.comBlogger3881100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4962969789392187198.post-27794626451893908642012-03-01T11:53:00.001-08:002012-03-02T12:18:01.785-08:00

Andrew Breitbart passed away unexpectedly from natural causes shortly after midnight this morning in Los Angeles. This is the man who helped launch Drudge, then struck out on his own with BigGovernment.com etc. Andrew offered $100,000 of his own money to anybody who could prove that TEA Partiers had racially slurred some Democratic congressmen/women (all over the media implied that we were

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Institute of Justice constitutional law professor Elizabeth Price Foley, explains how Obamacare threatens centuries of Anglo-American contract law, and essentially gives the government tyrannical power over what agreements we may, may not, or must enter into. The Supreme Court must strike down Obamacare, or it's the end of the line for individual liberty in this country. Read more...

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I attended the Whatcom County Council meeting last night, at which the Occupy Bellingham Borg had a little tantrum. Immediately following a couple of public hearings, and the public forum section of the meeting, the lead conformist stood up and yelled, "Mic Check!", and then proceeded to read his little manifesto, as the other conformists dutifully bleated out each line in response. Most of the

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If you're not paying for something, you're not the customer; you're the product being sold. ~ blue_beetle, Metafilter discussion. Any time you think you're getting free stuff, think again. There's no such thing as a free lunch. Free radio, free TV, free email, free health care, free education. Forget it. It isn't free. You're being sold. Just out of college, I was the chief engineer for a

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We recently lost a local Ferndale boy in a military helicopter crash. You might wonder how that can happen. Well, sometimes it's because they have to do really difficult things, like this: Well done, guys.

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Preservatives have recently started connecting the dots on Agenda 21, and the 'progressive' shape-shifters have naturally started calling us conspiracy theorists. Never mind the fact that Agenda 21 is on full display for all to see, where they say they intend to do precisely what we say they are doing! You'd think they'd take the website down. But no matter. It's all archived now anyway. There's

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Bill Whittle lays it out about as clearly as is possible: Sorry about the vernacular, but we're all adults here, right? Thanks to Sondrakistan.

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The tea parties might be the last gasp for liberty for another 1000 years, during which time human numbers and mobility might drop sufficiently that another small group of rebels could found a new republic on some isolated continent, based on Classical Liberalism, which will again over a couple of centuries grow, thrive, prosper and flame out. It's weird... animals and other constantly changing

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This is the tactic: The Obama administration tries to force Catholics and other groups to adopt mandates against their principles, protected under the First Amendment. These groups rebel. The Regime backs down. Finally, The Regime says, "We've tried, we've really tried to implement this health care bill, but now we see it's impossible, on First Amendment grounds. Therefore, the only way it will

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Kurt Schlichter, writing over at Andrew Breitbart's Big Government provides this advice to the tea parties: The GOP Establishment we keep hearing about is real, and it is also doomed. That will not change whether the Establishment’s candidate Mitt Romney wins in November or not. After the election, the battle really starts; what is happening now are just skirmishes in a fight for control of

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The media love to compare the occupy movement with the tea parties. This is from an email circulating on the Internet: REPORTED OCCUPY MOVEMENT TEA PARTIES ARRESTS 4149+ 0 RAPES 12 0 DAMAGE $10,000,000.00 $0 PUBLIC DEFECATION 307 0 ANTISEMITIC RANTS 12 0 COST TO TAXPAYERS ( by 11/9) $19,327,487.00+ $0 PUBLIC MASTURBATION 3 0

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Robert Heinlein was an American science fiction writer. Here are some good quotes by him: A government-supported artist is an incompetent whore! Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed. The ordinary bloke will not voluntarily pay for "art" that leaves him unmoved--if he does pay for it, the money has to be conned out of him, by taxes and such. Place your clothes and weapons where you

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This email came from our friends in Canada: The Royal Navy is proud of its new fleet of Type 45 destroyers. Having initially named the first two ships HMS Daring and HMS Dauntless, the Naming Committee has, after intensive pressure from Brussels, renamed them HMS Cautious and HMS Prudence. The next five ships are to be named HMS Empathy, HMS Circumspect, HMS Nervous, HMS Timorous and HMS

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This is from an email circulating on the Internet: How liberals think on 10 major issues of the day: The U.S. Constitution Is Unconstitutional According to liberal dogma, the Declaration of Independence, U.S. Constitution, and Bill of Rights are unconstitutional because all were crafted by an exclusive conclave of white male Christians. Women, Hispanics, African-Americans, Asians, gays,

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There is an email going around the Internet called "High Fashion at the Mosque" and this picture, with the caption, "Perhaps it is time that we learn the true nature of Islam..." I have several problems with this. First of all, the person in the picture may not be Muslim, and we don't know why he's wearing the shirt. I'll give him the benefit of the doubt, and suggest that he stands with

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A few days ago, I posted a letter I sent to my representatives in Washington, D.C. Apparently, it (and millions like it, as well as Google blacking out their logo, and Wikipedia going completely dark) got their attention. Heritage Action for America reports: This week, controversial legislation that could result in government censorship of the internet and stifle innovation came under fire.

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It looks as if SOPA/PIPA have been killed "in their present form". Red State Advocacy says: On Wednesday, RedState joined sites around the Internet, including Wikipedia and Google, in a global protest against the deceptively named Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and PROTECT IP Act (PIPA). It was an historic occasion for Americans to stand up to out-of-touch Washington politicians. (Continue

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I sent this short message to my congressman and senators: Please reject SOPA/PIPA: Which article of The Constitution authorizes government to do that? Please check. See also, The First Amendment. Please do not let special interests stampede you into usurping our natural rights. We the People granted a few of them to the government to exercise on our behalf. Our right to free speech wasn't

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Adapted from an email circulating the Internet: First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they were pregnant. They took aspirin, ate bleu cheese dressing, tuna from a can and didn't get tested for diabetes. Then after that trauma, we were put to sleep on our tummies in baby cribs covered with bright colored lead-based paints. We had no childproof lids on medicine

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From an email circulating on the Internet: This video is fresh (for the public). It was made just six weeks ago in the Atlantic, just off Newport News (Hampton Roads), Virginia . These are the latest sea trials of the F-35B on the USS Wasp. They were very successful, with 74 VL's and STO's in a three week period. The media and the program critics had predicted that we would burn holes in the

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On Tuesday, January 3, I witnessed the new members of the Ferndale City Council being sworn in. Here's what they promised, in front of God and everybody: I, [name], do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution and laws of the State of Washington, and that I will faithfully and impartially perform and discharge the duties of the

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I Fisk an email circulating on the Interntet: What is this? Will it be the next big thing? Tata Motors of India thinks so. What will the Oil Companies do to stop it? The oil companies? Nothing! Absolutely nothing. Everyone blames the oil companies for suppressing every impractical alternative energy source since perpetual motion. If someone ever does develop an energy source that is cheaper,

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Here's some very interesting and critical testimony about IPCC and global warming climate change: Hat tip to Small Dead Animals. More testimony at the Heartland Institute...

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Valentina just recorded this one. It may seem like a simple tune, but it is very difficult to play well. Valentina wrote, "Liszt made sure it is one of the most difficult transcriptions - ever".

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It's 2012, election year. You know what to do...

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Oppressiveness doesn't mean gulags and Solzhenitsyn or Nelson Mandela in prison. Those are extreme examples. Here are the definitions of the word oppression. Pick any one; they all describe our government today: Burdensome or difficult to bear Tyrannical or exercising unjust power Weighing heavily on the spirit; intense, or overwhelming Need some examples? How about the Top 10 Worst Federal

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Hillsdale College is a national treasure. They are a private college, they accept no government funding of any kind, so they are not beholden to anyone but their benefactors -- and their students. Alas, I wish my alma mater was still like this, but no... instead of pursuing truth and enlightenment, they have sunk into the depths of multi-culti post-modern depravity. Anyway, Hillsdale College's

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Peace on Earth, goodwill towards men.

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It seems only fitting, on a blog named, "Rage Against the Kakistocracy" that we feature an annual Kakistocrat of the Year. I'm ashamed to admit that I didn't think of it last year, when I would have nominated Nancy Pelosi. Thanking God that she's no longer Speaker of the House, I am obliged to nominate someone else. Barney Frank comes to mind, but he's such a caricature of idiocy, that he hardly

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I'm reading The Heritage Foundation edition of The Road to Serfdom by Friedrich A. Hayek. I ran across this passage, which should be of interest to OWS as well as Tea Partiers. According to Friedrich A. Hayek, Great danger lies in the policies of two powerful groups, organized capital and organized labor, which support the monopolistic organization of industry. The recent growth of monopoly is

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This never fails to choke me up... This scene from A Charlie Brown Christmas didn't mean all that much to me when I watched it when it first aired in 1965. It does now.

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I have had this at the top of my sidebar for over a year: THE ONLY QUESTION YOU NEED "Which article of the Constitution gives government the authority to do that?" If more and more people start asking this question, I think most of our worst political problems, in all branches and all levels of government would go away by themselves, almost overnight. When a reporter asked Nancy Pelosi that

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I know you think, you think you know, but I think you don't. ~ Zaphod Beeblebrox The watermelons are onto us. Lloyd Alter, at treehugger (a discovery company), writes, This past summer I think about twelve people read my post Agenda 21: The United Nations Threat To Control Our Lightbulbs, Our Lifestyles and Our Lives, where I wrote about how historic preservation, formerly the preserve of

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From an email circulating on The Internet: Rod Blagojevich is the former Illinois Governor who tried to sell Obama's seat in Congress. Obama was asked by the press if he had ever met Gov. Rod Blagojevich. He replied: "I only saw Rod Blagojevich one time... And that was in the stands and from a distance at a Chicago Bears Football Game." Of course, you can believe him -- he's our President. The

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This email came to me from a local technical list server that I subscribe to: Subject: odd phone call This scam has been going around but it's the first I've heard of it locally. Apparently they are preying upon people who aren't computer smart... they say the computer is infected and then ask for access to the computer so they can "show you the problem" and then they ask that the victim

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Computer models are buggy self-fulfilling prophecies with circular dependencies. I write software for a living, so I should know. Computer models can only model what we already know, so they can't actually teach us anything. They certainly are not useful as experiments to prove a hypothesis, because the computer model simply becomes the hypothesis -- implemented as a computer program. It's a

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From an email circulating the Internet: The Top 12 Reasons to Vote Democrat I voted Democrat because I believe oil companies' profits of 4% on a gallon of gas are obscene, but the government taxing the same gallon of gas at 15% isn't. I voted Democrat because I believe the government will do a better job of spending the money I earn than I would. I voted Democrat because Freedom of Speech

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Yesterday, I sent the following letter to the Whatcom County Planning Commission: December 9, 2011 Karl A. Uppiano 5988 Malloy Ave. Ferndale, WA 98248 File Copy – Whatcom County Planning Commission 5280 Northwest Drive Bellingham, WA 98226 Subject: Public Comment – Concerns Regarding Birch Bay Watershed Action Plan Dear Planning Commissioners: I want to share my impressions of the

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Here's some food for the soul. Valentina's website says she's working on a "Liszt Project" -- fantastic! It's all good, but check out from about 6:00 on.

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Here's another chalk talk. Times up! Pencils down. Close your blue books!

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Bill Whittle voices this handy little tutorial. 2012 will definitely be a "fork in the road". I hope we start back on the right fork.

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Probably scared spitless over the prospect of a conservative black man running against the Halfrican-American, Barack Obama, the regressive spinmeisters managed to schedule serial accusers of sexual harassment, culminating in allegations of a 13-year illicit extramarital affair against Herman Cain. The one-two-three-four punch proved too much for the man, who does lack the gloves-off campaign

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Evidence continues to accumulate, that global warming (or the more recently adopted non-falsifiable and self-fulfilling moniker "climate change") is an outright fraud. Jim Lacey writing in National Review Online states in his article Scientists Behaving Badly, Last week over 5,000 new e-mails, already dubbed Climategate 2, were released. Anyone still desiring to contest the assertion that only

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Victor Davis Hanson provides us with one of the more uplifting articles about Barack Obama.In the last three years, the president has taught us a great deal about America, the world, and himself.Before Obama, many Americans still believed in massive deficit spending, whether as an article of fairness, a means to economic growth, or just a lazy fallback position to justify an out-of-control

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According to this article, In Durham, England, corpses will soon be used to generate electricity. Mark Twain quipped in The Innocents Abroad, that they used to burn mummies to run the trains in Egypt. This is even better. I’m sure the backlog of unburned deceased humans is a huge untapped resource in the energy field. And if we run out of dead ones, we can start killing live ones. We're a

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Barack Obama says he'll need another term to "finish the job". It strikes me as a decidedly odd turn of phrase. My parents used to use the euphemism "finish the job" to mean "wipe and flush". I really don't want Barack Obama to "finish the job" he dropped on America. That would stink.

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Am I anti-environment? No, I'm anti environmentalist. I don't like watermelons. I want to leave to my children a planet that is cleaner than I found it, with scenic places and fresh air and water. However, I also want to leave to my children a world that is freer than I found it, with liberty and justice for all. There has to be a balance. The definition of an extremist is someone who

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Google runs a private blogging platform, blogger.com. In fact, it hosts Rage Against the Kakistocracy. Now, Joe Lieberman is exhorting Google to ban terrorist content on blogger.com. While I am no friend of Muslim extremism and terrorism, I am also no friend of government oppression, or the infringement of our First Amendment rights. As long as Google decides to ban terrorist content on their own

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Here's an interesting quiz. I got 11 out of 13. How about you?

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From an email that is circulating on the Internet: This is just a history lesson and nothing can change it. The day the Democrats took over was not January 22nd 2009. It was actually January 3rd 2007, the day the Democrats took over the House of Representatives and the Senate, at the very start of the 110th Congress. The Democrat Party controlled a majority in both chambers for the first

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The truth will set you free -- literally -- if you can find it. Canada is reported to be planning to announce it is leaving the Kyoto Protocols. If that isn't a huge blow for freedom, then I don't know what is. There isn't much of anything more oppressive than the government policies (Kyoto, Agenda 21) intended to reduce "global warming", or "climate change" as they now unfalsifiably call it.

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Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for. ~ Will RogersHappy Thanksgiving everyone!

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When I first heard about this, I was sure it was a joke. I figured it came from The Onion, or The Nose on Your Face. But sadly, no, it was real -- just when I thought the kakistocracy couldn't get any more outrageous. Withering under well-deserved ridicule, the Obama regime reconsidered, and "delayed" the $0.15 Christmas tree tax. The tax was “designed to benefit the industry and will be funded

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Government should not be allowed to pick winners and losers. It can't be trusted to be honest about it. This article from Forbes illustrates the problem:The Fisker Karma electric car, developed mainly with your tax money so that a bunch of rich VC’s wouldn’t have to risk any real money, has rolled out with an nominal EPA MPGe of 52 in all electric mode (we will ignore the gasoline engine for this

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This video pokes the "Occupy Wall Street" brats' manifesto full of holes. It's almost thirty minutes long, so get comfortable. Although he makes many very good arguments, I believe this guy is an anarchist. I am not an anarchist. Our founders were not anarchists. I believe as they did, that government is necessary to protect liberty, but they also knew that power corrupts, and absolute power

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Now here's a guy who can Rage Against the Kakistocracy with the best of them (and I think I know who I am): Yeah, what he said.

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Dear PSE, About six months ago, I started receiving "energy report cards" in the mail, telling me that I'm using significantly more energy than my neighbors. Several of my friends and co-workers have received similar notices. I understand the desire and the need to save energy, but I find this comparison to be intrusive and sanctimonious. I'm not in some contest to see who can be more "green".

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Dude, if you're the 99%, then what in blazes is your major malfunction? Are you telling me that one percent of the population has you and all of the world's power and wealth cornered? Tell me another! I certainly do not support corporatocracy (or union-ocracy) but if it weren't for the kakistocracy, we wouldn't be in this mess. An activist government is a fraud magnet. When government goes

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I'm not a denier, I'm a heretic, but News Editor over at Western Journalism reiterates what I have been saying since day one: I’m a denier for several reasons. There is no substantive evidence that the planet has warmed significantly or that any significant warming will occur in the future. If any warming does occur, it likely will be concentrated at higher latitudes and therefore be beneficial.

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Sometimes I just have to give my soul a rest from all of the tyranny, oppression and corruption. Valentina Lisitsa may very well be the most talented pianist of our time. I fell in love with this concerto when I first heard Andre Watts play it 25 years ago. I hope you enjoy it. Valentina Lisitsa, Pianist This was recorded live in Mexico City, but I cannot find out which orchestra or which

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In an email circulating the Internet, then Senator Barack Obama is quoted from 2006:The fact that we are here today to debate raising America 's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the US Government cannot pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government's reckless fiscal policies.

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I received an email from Patti Murray:Over the next few months, the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction will need to find a balanced approach to addressing our debt and deficit, growing our economy, and putting Americans back to work. As Co-Chair of this bipartisan commission, I am working hard to bring members together around a bipartisan plan that works for families in Washington state.

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From an email making the rounds on the Internet: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

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My wife found this article on The Bellingham Herald website:For more than a decade, biochemists could not fully decipher the structure of a key protein, called a protease, that retroviruses such as HIV need to multiply. Knowing it would be a key step toward developing better anti-viral drugs. So University of Washington scientists unleashed an avid group of online gamers. Within three furious

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Yesterday, I attended the Constitution Day Tea Party on The Guide sponsored by The Bellingham Tea Party. It was windy and chilly, threatening rain, and turnout was less than usual. The people who attended were very enthusiastic, as was the reception by passers-by. We had a lot of honks and waves, along with the usual number of extended middle fingers (from those who disapprove of The Constitution

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I don't know if these guys paid the license fees to perform these songs in public, so they might be pulled soon. Get 'em while they're hot!

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Jeff Bergner at The Weekly Standard debunks the myths perpetrated by the illiberal control freaks:Liberals believe the darnedest things. Sometimes talking with liberals is perplexing. You never know what claim they will make next or what name they will call you. Take David Axelrod’s response to Standard & Poor’s recent credit action: He calls it the “Tea Party downgrade.” Amazingly, he blames

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We were attacked. It was exactly as it seemed: evil people following an evil man, misled by an evil doctrine, killed thousands of innocent men, women and children on that fateful day, destroying the lives and families of many thousands more innocent men, women and children -- the husbands, the wives, the kids. It was not an inside job. We must not shrink from calling the enemy by his real

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It is incredible to think that in the Obama White House we went from passing bills without reading them to passing bills without writing them. ~ Michele Bachmann  ...referring to Barack Obama's job speech, in which he exhorted congress repeatedly to "pass the bill" when there is in fact, no bill.

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I was inspired to make this simple little image: I hope this image goes "viral". Feel free to use it any way you like (right click and save as...). I'm praying for a Great Tea Party Uprising (GTPU) in 2012 -- in November, at the ballot box -- to finish what we started in 2010, replacing the rest of the dim bulbs with constitutional literates. "The natural progress of things is for liberty to

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This article over at American Thinker is a tad hyperbolic, but this paragraph makes it all worthwhile:Nothing is as toxic as a really bad idea. Hundreds of millions of dollars are still being spent in "scientific" pursuit of disaster scenarios about the earth, fiddling with infinitely variable computer models. This isn't science; the burden of proof has flipped to the skeptics, which does not

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Arguing with progressives regresssives. I can't say it any better than Bill. Take it away, Bill!

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I don't know if Al Gore truly believes the junk science, or if he is deliberately trying to pull the wool over people's eyes:One day climate change skeptics will be seen in the same negative light as racists, or so says former Vice President Al Gore. (Read more...) “This is an organized effort to attack the reputation of the scientific community as a whole, to attack their integrity, and to

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I don't mind using CFLs where dimmability doesn't matter; where instant brightness doesn't matter; where a balanced, continuous spectrum doesn't matter; where operating cost is important; where longevity is important. Hey, EPA, I am quite capable of making the appropriate illumination choices for myself, thank you very much. And if someone can convince me that using these devices will be

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I was discussing the Laffer Curve with a co-worker today, and I argued that it is just as real and just as valid as the effect of price on the law of supply and demand. The difference is in the shape of the curves. In a free market, people pay for things voluntarily, so the peak price point is where the selling price matches the perceived value of the purchase. The peak revenue point on the

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Fifty some years ago, the 1960s brought forth on this continent a new counterculture, conceived in sex, drugs and rock'n'roll and dedicated to peace and love. They said, "If we were in charge, things would be different." Now, they are in charge, and things are different. It turns out that their leaders are bigger tyrants and oppressors than the ones they criticized. They're using the force of

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Are biodegradable plastic shopping bags the biggest problem Bellingham faces? I think not, because few people were talking about it until a few days before the city council shoved the shopping bag ban down our throats. If it isn’t high on the Bellinghamsters’ agenda, then whose agenda is it? And why is it being imposed on us? In a free country, when consumers identify a problem, they demand

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Many watermelons argue that preservatives are all a bunch of dogmatic Christian fundamentalists who reject science. I don't think that's true. Let's consider the history of science and the role of skeptics and testable hypotheses in the quest for the truth. Following the line from Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Newton, Einstein... Newton's hypotheses replaced earlier scientific orthodoxy.

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This is from an email circulating on the internet (it appears to be a modified version of an article that originally appeared in The Onion):Washington, DC May 31, 2011 - The Obama Administration is urging Congress and the Senate to pass sweeping legislation that will provide new benefits for many Americans: The Americans With No Abilities Act (AWNAA). President Obama said he will sign it as soon

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This video is being posted as a "video response" on tea party YouTube channels: In case you couldn't stand to watch the badgering and lack of meaningful dialog to the bitter end, I'll summarize it for you. The interviewer has two or three questions for unprepared tea partiers. A pattern emerges (paraphrasing):Interviewer: "Do you believe that Barack Obama was born in the USA?" Tea partier: "I

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I was thinking about current events, and the extreme divergence of our government from The Constitution, and the dramatic infringement on private property rights at all levels of government, and it made me think of a couple of quotes from Thomas Jefferson:The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground. ~ Thomas JeffersonFor whatever reasons, the government

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From an email circulating the Internet:In the line at the store, the cashier told the older woman that she should bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags weren't good for the environment. The woman apologized to him and explained, "We didn't have the green thing back in my day." The clerk responded, "That's our problem today. The former generation did not care enough to save our

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Whenever the Obama Regime does something that doesn't make sense, or seems hopelessly crass, stupid or inept, look at it through the lens of creating chaos. Political power flows from chaos, because We the People will beg for tyranny, just to replace the chaos. From an email circulating the web:Subject: Massive Security Breach How could this administration allow the spectacular

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I'm still seeing irresponsible sensationalized reports from the pathetic mainstream media. If you want intelligent, informed information about Fukushima and nuclear energy technology in general, go to the department of Nuclear Science and Engineering at MIT instead.

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Osama Bin Laden has been a dead man since days after 09/11/01. The only thing we lacked was a body, which took about a decade to attain bunker temperature. MSNBC said "Baraq Obama has achieved what two previous presidents failed to do". That doesn't square with the actual history of the situation. Bill Clinton had a clear shot at Bin Laden prior to 9/11, and failed to take it, on the advice of

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This is taken from an email circulating the Internet: If any other of our presidents had doubled the national debt, which had taken more than two centuries to accumulate, in one year, would you have approved? If any other of our presidents had then proposed to double the debt again within 10 years, would you have approved? If any other of our presidents had criticized a state law that he

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Donald Trump has been raising questions about Baraq Obama's birth certificate. As much as I think Donald Trump would be a disaster as president (although probably less of one than Baraq Obama), he can certainly stir the pot, which might be his only actual goal anyway. He may be acting as a foil to draw fire away from other more traditional parties (e.g., the Republican party and it's candidates).

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Here are some interesting quotes from Lord Acton (1834 - 1902):"There is no worse heresy than the fact that the office sanctifies the holder of it." "The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern." "The strong man with the dagger is followed by the weak man with the sponge." "And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all

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Forget taxes, what would happen if we simply confiscated all of the money from every rich household, from every corporation, to fund the US Government?

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In a well-choreographed move, Obama and the Democrats have managed to not pass a budget while simultaneously spending us into oblivion. Spending us into oblivion is a deliberate scheme invented by Cloward and Piven, to collapse the current free market, capitalist, constitutional system, in order to usher in full-blown socialism, thus relegating large segments of the population to degrading

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If you scratch an environmentalist, more often than not, you'll find a 'progressive' (illiberal control freak) just beneath the surface. These are the sanctimonious Agenda 21 buttinskis with visions of Godhood, who want to trample my property rights, and use the force of government to compel me to join their religion. I call them "watermelons": green on the outside, and red on the inside. I'm

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...gives you the authority to take us to war without congressional approval, Mr. Obama? At least G.W. Bush sought congressional approval and funding for "his war". Do we no longer have a constitutional republic? Rand Paul says it better than I do: Barack Obama is like a bull in a china shop, and our Constitution is the china.

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It is not that Agenda 21 environmentalist progressives are sanctimonious buttinskys that bothers me. It is that they are sanctimonious buttinskys with delusions of Godhood, who want to use the force of government to compel me to join their religion. That is what bothers me.

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The media are still crying "wolf". Here's the real story from the department of Nuclear Science and Engineering at MIT. Contrast that with this article from the Washington Post.

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When I first created this blog in February 2009, I worried that the word kakistocracy (n., pl. -cies. Government by the least qualified or least principled citizens. [Greek kakistos, worst, superlative of kakos, bad; -cracy, government, regime]), might be a little too extreme, too over-the-top. Looking back over the past two years, now I'm not convinced that "kakistocracy" even begins to

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I first became aware of ICLEI last month. Sure, I had heard the name "Agenda 21", but I had no idea what it was about. This has been going on for decades, under the guise of warm fuzzy names like "sustainable development", right under our noses, under the radar, out of the reach of the US Constitution, and with the help and approval of politicians from both sides of the aisle. Many so-called "non

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This article appeared in American Digest. I have been saying this for some time now.We can survive many traits in presidents, but malice is not among them. In the unfolding saga of the Libyan adventure I note that, even though it is early innings, a popular strain of conservative criticism centers around the always popular idea of 'stupidity in government;' with a variant on the subset of 'the

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This article appeared on the CNBC website. Let's see... what part of "duh!" don't we understand? It isn't as if we haven't been on this trajectory for decades, and nobody warned us!The United States is on a fiscal path towards insolvency and policymakers are at a "tipping point," a Federal Reserve official said on Tuesday. "If we continue down on the path on which the fiscal authorities put us,

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This article appeared in Sipping Hot Green Tea:Breaking News from Glenn Beck's program this morning...a former SEIU official, Steven Lerner, explains a literal conspiracy against the liberty of the people of the United States of America, at a closed session of THE LEFT FORUM at Pace University last weekend. Steven details a formerly-secret conspiracy to OVERTHROW THE U.S. GOVERNMENT and INSTITUTE

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