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TAX AND SPEND:

In an article exposes the debt and Orwellian language used to describe entitlements, we get this gem:

"The estimates of the unfunded liabilities keep rising. The most shocking is the estimate of Prof. Lawrence Kotlikoff of Boston University. He says the U.S. government is in the red by about $200 trillion."

This estimate is suddenly gone mainstream. I've seen it repeatedly in the last few weeks. It's about time.

If Republicans end these jobless benefits, unemployment will drop significantly.

Soaking the rich is not only immoral, it's counterproductive.

GLOBAL WARMING AND ENERGY:

New climate change game has Soylent Green-like scenario where the player can kill people and turn them into food in order to "save the planet" from global warming. You can't make this stuff up.

POLICE STATE:

Cop gets two years for murder. The surprising news is he got anything at all. That's highly unusual.

With all the criticism over the nude-scanners and gropes, expect the bureaucrats to change the policy in some way that will enable rich people and the members of the press to avoid both. The rest of us will be forced to submit. All policies, no matter how well-intentioned to begin with (and I have no reason to believe implementing these scanners was well-intentioned, it seems more likely they're being implemented to make Chertoff rich and empower government at our expense), end up benefiting the ruling class and oppressing the people.

WAR:

Newly empowered Republicans make never-ending war in Afghanistan a priority. Great. They won't be happy until we're bankrupt or all Afghans are killed. Lindsay Graham wants war with Iran too. When you're an aristocrat, you can never have enough war.

"Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina, speaking at the Halifax International Security Forum in Canada, told reporters that there will come a point where Iran's nuclear program will reach the state that a conventional limited air strike "won't take them out."

"We're probably even past that point," he said.

"Instead of a surgical strike on their nuclear infrastructure, I think we're to the point now that you have to really neuter the regime's ability to wage war against us and our allies. And that's a different military scenario. It's not a ground invasion but it certainly destroys the ability of the regime to strike back.""

This is how twisted the minds of aristocrats become. Memo to Graham: Iran already has no power to strike the US. It can close the Gulf of Hormuz, which I assume he means, but that's not striking back at the US. Iran can't harm anybody in America, but if you force American troops to attack Iran, they will certainly kill many Americans.

POLITICS:

If  Pelosi becomes minority leader, the Democrats are almost certain to get spanked again in 2012. It will show that Democrats absolutely didn't get the message, just like Republicans didn't get it in 2006.

MEDIA:

Newspaper tries to blame the last two years of economic problems on congressional Republicans because they opposed Obama's agenda.

MISC:

Why did we give government the power to regulate marriage? It's just stupid. People should be free to form whatever kind of relationships they want.