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TAX AND SPEND:

Chart shows that US debt versus GDP is at a record high.

Britain's government plans to make cuts deeper than during Thatcher's tenure. That would be wonderful for the Brits. Too bad we're suffering bigger government.

"Britain’s former Labour government had also become highly intrusive over its 13-year rule. Critics charges Britain under Labour was sometimes verging on a police state. One of Cameron’s first acts was to order tens of thousands of street cameras spying on Britons removed and to put an end to many repressive security and police programs."

I'm jealous, but I'm not so sure making the House of Lords an elective body is a good idea. We know what happened in the US when Senators won the opportunity to pander to special interests.

FEDERAL RESERVE:

Peter Schiff reports the Fed has finally publicly adopted the policy of destroying the dollar as he and many Austrians predicted.

"Inspired by comments this week from St. Louis Fed President James Bullard, it is now widely accepted that the continued domestic weakness will cause the Fed to significantly expand stimulus efforts through so-called “quantitative easing.” The printing of trillions of dollars to purchase of government debt will put serious pressure on the value of the dollar.

With the monetary cards now so clearly on the table, currency traders have placed their bets, and the smart money is quickly running away from the Greenback. The falling dollar is reigniting the commodities market. On Monday oil busted through the $80 price ceiling that had held since May. Any additional breaks to the upside may be considered one of the unforeseen “negative shocks” of which Fed President Bullard warns. If the government fears the “recovery” will be further impinged by higher energy prices then look for “quantitative easing” to become both the driving force of our economic policy and poison that finally kills the dollar."

This is scary. Apparently even the bankers fear sudden, as in appearing in weeks, hyperinflation.

GLOBAL WARMING AND ENERGY:

Four important lessons from the BP oil spill. Scientists lobby Congress to receive some of the stolen funds for their research.

Global hurricane activity at 30 year low.

POLICE STATE:

Another case of outrageous police brutality caught on video, this time by the police car camera. You know these cops are going to say they were just following their training the same way the Nazis said they were just following orders.

Government agents are so enamored with taking high radiation nude photos of Americans to enjoy in their leisure time, they want portable scanners to take with them everywhere. It belong before these end in schools with the perverts taking nude pics of school children. We won't have to worry about finding the child molesters. They'll be running the scanners.

WAR:

Ron Paul on the crazy bloating of our intelligence services.

One of the revelations in the wikileaks document dump on Afghanistan is the US knows where bin Laden is.

"The Guardian provides a helpful interactive map, in which you click on a location and read the “incident report.” Of course, you’re reading a selection of what the Guardianeditors consider important, but it looks to me like their news judgment isn’t bad at all, because the first one I clicked on was an intelligence report detailing meetings of the Taliban with Osama bin Laden in Quetta, Pakistan, and in villages on the border with Afghanistan. So, bin Laden is not only alive, but they know where he is. I guess when Hillary was hectoring the Pakistanis about the whereabouts of bin Laden, the subtext was: “If we know, then you must know, too!”"

Why haven't we captured or killed him?

"Now that our eyes are being opened to the cover-up of countless civilian casualties, the truth about our “allies,” and the mystery behind the continued ability of bin Laden to “elude” us, let us decide if this is truly a just war, a war worth fighting – and going bankrupt over."

I think we already know it's not.

POLITICS:

I'd like to see an honest analysis of what taxpayers paid for in Michelle Obama's vacation to Spain and compare it to previous First Lady vacations. If she really packed up a boatload of friends and put rooms on the taxpayer's tab other than for her security, Obama should be impeached.

Obama just wanted to play. Screw everybody else. This guy just wants to be a celebrity and hang with the big boys. It's all about him.

MISC:

Genetically modified canola spreading to wild plants as always happens with genetically modified plants.

Camile Paglia explains how gay activists have foolishly driven a wedge between heterosexuals and gays by trying to co-opt the tradition of marriage which has always been about a man and women following their biological drive to get together to have kids, whether they ended up having kids or not. You'd be hard pressed to find a heterosexual who would not support equality in civil affairs for gay partners, but the activists aren't satisfied with that. They want to corrupt the meaning of the term marriage to include gay relationships that are not the product or our biological drive for procreation. Marriage is not merely a cultural, religious tradition. It's more fundamental than that. It's the reflection of the biological drive to procreate.

"I think [gay marriage] is a flash point for antigay backlash…. That’s the problem: calling it a marriage. If you ask the working class guy on the street, ‘Do you believe in gay marriages?’ it makes him absolutely have a convulsion of revulsion. Marriage was traditionally meant for male and female. It was a bond for the raising of children, so it always had a procreative meaning too, and it has a long sacred tradition behind it. I hate any time that gay causes get mixed up with seeming to profane other people’s sacred tradition. The gay activist leadership has been totally clumsy about that. Rather than treating it in a serious way and saying ‘We respect the tradition of marriage,’ gay activism is associated with throwing balloons of blood at the steps of St. Patrick’s."

But I disagree with this part from Justin Ramondo (the Paglia quote was quoted by him):

"This is where the propaganda of the right-wing anti-gay marriage movement goes completely off the rails: the alleged “threat” represented to marriage as an institution by the prospect of gay unions ranges from nil to nonexistent. The idea that gay people, given the opportunity, are going to rush to get married is a fantasy shared by both sides in this debate. But what about states where sexual infidelity is grounds for divorce? Lots of factors no one’s even considered will lead to the big fizzle of “gay marriage.”"

This is only true if government has no role in defining marriage. If government defines marriage to include gay marriage, and children are brainwashed in government schools day after day that gay marriage is equal to heterosexual marriage despite the evidence of their eyes and 600 million years of evolution to the contrary, subsequent generations of children will develop a warped view of the institution which will have unforeseeable consequences. I have no doubt the gay activists hope it will create more gays, but the consequences won't be that simple or painless.

"In yet another irony, it looks like the gay “liberation” movement has turned into its opposite. Instead of rebelling against the bourgeois social order, and asserting and celebrating their “liberation” from legalistic and moral norms, gay activists seek to reinforce those norms by “broadening” them. What started out as a movement for “gay liberation” has turned into a campaign to make gay society as restrictive of sexuality (particularly male sexuality) as the straight world – and even more boring."

Wow. What a great point. Gays are fighting to be just as oppressed as straights who marry and put themselves under the thumb of the government. That makes no sense, which supports my position that only a small number of militant gays really cared about this issue at first, but they've made it into a cause celebre and now it's a litmus test for everybody.

"Is nothing sacred anymore? It used to be that the American State had invaded every other aspect of American life: there was hardly a nook or a cranny left unoccupied by our army of bureaucrats, lawyers, judges, and elected politicians. The gay subculture was once largely outside of this system, and therefore homosexuals enjoyed enormous freedom and flexibility in their personal lives, a happy condition that marriage – and any form of state intervention—invariably ends. Which is precisely why gay marriage will prove to be just as unpopular in the gay male community as it is in the heart of the Bible belt, albeit for wildly different reasons."

This begs the question: is growing government involvement in marriage the reason we suffer so many broken marriages? I hadn't ever thought of it before, probably because I've never been married, but it has to be a factor. Government poisons everything it touches. If we take away the government's power over marriage, which is my position, the institution of marriage and many individual marriages will surely benefit. I think this is the most intelligent article about gay marriage I have ever read.