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RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS:

What part of shall not be infringed do these people not understand?

ECONOMY:

Who's smarter than a fifth grader?

"While government continues to borrow and spend with reckless abandon, CNNMoney.com reports eight million Americans have cut up their credit cards."

Not government.

TAX AND SPEND:

How Democrats did their thing. The House voted 234-188 to extend the Bush tax cuts for middle-class Americans, but the bill did nothing to stop the automatic tax hikes on higher income earners. So now 188 Republicans are on record as opposing continuing those tax cuts for the middle class. This is was an excellent class warfare maneuver, and I wouldn't be surprised if it works in Democrats' favor in the future. The pressure now is on Senate Republicans because Democrats still control the Senate. From a purely political point of view, Harry Reid should force a similar vote and force Senate Republicans to filibuster it. This is a game of chicken that Democrats will win if they carry it to its ultimate conclusion. But in the bigger picture, we all lose. Next year will be a different story. House Republicans can force a vote on extending the Bush tax cuts for everybody (though the cuts will already have expired by that time), and force Democrats to vote against it. But right now, Democrats still have the power.

I'm happy to see Boortz has picked up on my chicken analogy:

"Congress might be in what's technically referred to as a lame-duck session, but it's looking more like a game of political chicken .."

He must be reading my blog more regularly.

Of course failure to deal with this could crash the stock market, but the aristocrats don't care. All they care about is who gets the blame.

Apparently Obama's call for a federal pay freeze is all show and no substance. Imagine that.

REGULATION:

Remember 20 years or so ago when banks were being accuse of racism in their loans for adhering to credit standards? Remember how that led Bill Clinton to change the CRU regulations with the help of ACORN and created the subprime mortgage market? Remember how that subprime mortgage market spearheaded our latest economic crisis? It's deja vu all over again.

"The National Community Reinvestment Coalition plans to challenge the widespread practice of requiring borrowers asking for FHA-backed loans to have higher FICO scores than the minimum required by the FHA ... The NCRC says that the higher FICO requirements disproportionately discriminate against African-American and Latino borrowers, many of whom have credit scores above the 580 threshold set by FHA but below the higher minimums set by banks."

As if they failed to learn the lesson... Fact is they know the lesson perfectly well. Most of them don't care. The rest want to see our economy collapse further.

FEDERAL RESERVE:

According to Bloomberg:

"Forty-one percent of Republicans and 55 percent of Tea Party supporters believe the Fed should be abolished or radically overhauled, according to a Bloomberg National Poll conducted Oct. 7-10."

That's a good start. A new data dump by the Fed that was the result of Ron Paul's audit the Fed bill after it was watered down showed:

"Six European banks were among the top 11 companies that sold the most debt overall to the Commercial Paper Funding Facility. They sold a combined $274.1 billion, according to data made public today by the U.S. central bank. UBS sold $74.5 billion, the most among all borrowers. The largest U.S.-based user was insurer American International Group, selling $60.2 billion."

So the Fed didn't just steal money from us to bail out American billionaires, it stole money from us to bail out European billionaires too. And look at the companies the Fed bailed out:

"Even bedrock corporations like Caterpillar, Harley-Davidson, General Electric, McDonald’s, Toyota and Verizon relied on a Fed program that supported the market for commercial paper."

 And you thought they were just stealing our money and giving it to financial firms, for our own good of course. They were stealing our money and giving it to every billionaire they could find.

HEALTH CARE:

Michelle Obama's child nutrition bill passed, guaranteeing children will become less healthy. Think about all the poor kids who will be pushed by their parents into eating unhealthy school food instead of a getting to eat a decent meal at home just so the parents can suck a little welfare from the taxpayers.

"The $4.5 billion bill approved by the House 264-157 would expand a program that provides full meals after school to all 50 states."

Don't you love all those wonderful, limited government Republicans who voted for this bill?

Federal judge rules that the interstate commerce clause not allows government to regulate commerce that isn't between states, but it also allows it to regulate activity that isn't even commerce. I.e., the health care mandate is constitutional because the the words in the Constitution have no meaning to our government.

GLOBAL WARMING AND ENERGY:

A year after climategate, the corruption of science continues. Of course it does. It's still funded by government. And I'm talking about all science funded by government, not just climate science.

Norway suffers coldest November in living memory.

POLICE STATE:

Feds tracking credit card and loyalty card use and travel reservations of Americans in real time without warrants.

I have no problem with government making internal changes to protect secrets. That's like the Keystone cops making changes to prevent themselves from driving around in circles. It should be entertaining. I have a problem with the murder supporters who want to kill the whistle-blowers.

POLITICS:

Banksters and the Republican leadership are scheming to block Ron Paul from chairmanship of the monetary policy subcommittee. Maybe I should post this in the federal reserve category, but this highlights exactly how corrupt John Boehner is.

A German MP understands why I call our president Pharaoh Obama:

"Says Wolfgang Neskovic: “Barack Obama is not God, able to freely decide about life and death…. Nevertheless he behaves like an Old Testament God who kills people as he sees fit with fire and brimstone.”"

He thinks of himself as a god in human form. Others cast him in the role of the messiah, but they're wrong. Bush cast himself in the role of the messiah. Obama casts himself in the role of avenging angel.

MEDIA:

Accomplice press member Charles Krauthammer calls for Julian Assange to not sleep well. No kidding.

"And where are the intelligence agencies on which we lavish $80 billion a year? Assange has gone missing. Well, he’s no cave-dwelling jihadi ascetic. Find him. Start with every five-star hotel in England and work your way down.

Want to prevent this from happening again? Let the world see a man who can’t sleep in the same bed on consecutive nights, who fears the long arm of American justice. I’m not advocating that we bring out of retirement the KGB proxy who, on a London street, killed a Bulgarian dissident with a poisoned umbrella tip. But it would be nice if people like Assange were made to worry every time they went out in the rain."

Something seems odd with this essay. It's as if Krauthammer is calling for Assange's execution, but it isn't quite said. Maybe this is clue:

"EDITOR’S NOTE: This article has been amended since its original posting."

I bet is has. Nothing exposes a murderous piece of **** like calling for somebody's murder. Best to edit that out. I certainly wish these comments would end Krauthammer's career, but it's far more likely he'll become more worshiped than ever. This is another outstanding example of how government has turned the world upside down. Liars are to be praised and truth-tellers murdered. That's what happens when we allow government to become a murder machine protected by accomplice propagandists like Krauthammer.

" “Is it security you want?” asked Garrett of the architects of the national security state and those who supported that monstrosity. “There is no security at the top of the world.”"

Beautiful observation. I would say this no security for those who would rule the world through force. I wrote Special Report and asked them to ban Krauthammer from their show.

MISC:

Fantastic thunderstorm pics.

The slut gene made me do it. That's my story, and I'm sticking to it.