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TAX AND SPEND:

Even government-supported media outlet US Today reports the real US debt is $61.6 trillion.

The federal tax scheme encourages and enables identity theft.

HEALTH CARE:

Now the government wants to irradiate our food. It never ends. Whenever I see something like this, I wonder if the government created the crisis to grab more power and poison us further. This is a government non-solution to a government-created problem.

"Still, Americans get more irradiated foods than they realize. About a third of commercial spices — the kind added to processed foods — are irradiated, says Eustice, who's also a consultant to the Food Irradiation Processing Alliance."

Of course the FDA is irradiating our food and not telling us by hiding it in food processed by its corporate agents.

"There's no reason to fear irradiation but "there's no silver bullet here," cautions food-safety expert Caroline Smith DeWaal of the Center for Science in the Public Interest. Irradiation doesn't kill viruses that also sometimes taint food, and it adds to the food's price."

Trust us, we're from the government. Just like with TSA's nude scanners. Baloney. If the radiation kills bacteria, it kills or at least damages the cells of the produce. The end result is not a natural product.

POLICE STATE:

Report claims more children getting groped by TSA. This is the natural progression. First you get parents comfortable with it. Then you start on their children. Soon everybody is brainwashed to accept being groped by government agents everywhere they go. What's twisted to me is that parents allow these goons to do this to their children. What's so important you can't find another means of traveling?

Muslim marine put on no-fly list for emailing an imam.

US immigration officials perform ridiculous security checks on 2,000 elderly British cruise passengers.

WAR:

If you looked back at the Afghan war headlines, you'd see headlines like this throughout the last nine years:

"Making inroads in Afghanistan"

If we've been making inroads for nine years, how come we're still there? Afghanistan is a disaster. It's unwinnable because the people will never unite behind a government propped up by foreign fighters. We'll never know how many terrorists we created by trying to nation-build there.

NATO escalates the war on Libya again. Could this be a more transparent attempt at seizing control of resources? This is not going to end up the way western central planners think.

"Rasmussen said Qaddafi’s degraded security forces, advances by rebels seeking to topple him and high-level defections marked “considerable progress” in the alliance’s 10-week campaign. He also said there are risks to the stability of a possibly fragmented country after the regime’s collapse."

Ya think?

"NATO commanders have intensified their targeting of Qaddafi’s military machine after rebel fighters who control eastern Libya failed to mount a campaign to push westward to Tripoli. The alliance’s campaign was aided by helicopters for the first time over the weekend."

Within ten years, maybe much less, western rulers will be denouncing these new Libyan rulers as anti-American and anti-western.

Pat Buchanan celebrates the resurgence of the anti-interventionism right.

FOREIGN POLICY:

It looks like the violence in Syria is reaching civil war proportions too.

POLITICS:

Yet another pervert in government exposed. They're all lying, cheating freaks. Government attracts the worst people in the world to it, and the worst of the worst rise to the top. The press just covers up for them. But sometimes they do things that can't be covered up.

"The New York Democrat apologized to his wife and his constituents but said he had no intention of resigning. He argued that he had shown bad judgment but never violated his oath of office — thus setting up a test of voters' willingness to separate personal behavior from professional performance."

One of the few differences between Republicans and Democrats is Democrats rarely resign after they've been exposed as lying, cheating freaks. Republicans typically do. The article contains a nice list of many who were busted recently.

"Politicians are among those who sometimes believe the rules don't apply to them, according to psychologists and sociologists who study behavior. They say the self-confidence politicians must exude to succeed can lead them to believe they are invincible, and ego can lead them astray."

Self-confidence my behind. It's impossible for politicians to represent more than one person - collectivism is impossible - so the primary qualification of all politicians is they must be unnaturally talented liars. We all know the joke, "How can you tell when a politicians is lying?" "His lips are moving." The reason that joke is funny is it's true. We all know it's true. Politicians are all freaks. Unfortunately, we tend to think it applies to everybody else's representative, but never to our own. That's human nature, and politicians use it against us to loot us and control us. And we fall for it every time. This is a convenient distraction from the real news of economic and war futility.

"There are few things more sickening -- or revealing -- to behold than a D.C. sex scandal.  Huge numbers of people prance around flamboyantly condemning behavior in which they themselves routinely engage.  Media stars contrive all sorts of high-minded justifications for luxuriating in every last dirty detail, when nothing is more obvious than that their only real interest is vicarious titillation.  Reporters who would never dare challenge powerful political figures who torture, illegally eavesdrop, wage illegal wars or feed at the trough of sleazy legalized bribery suddenly walk upright -- like proud peacocks with their feathers extended -- pretending to be hard-core adversarial journalists as they collectively kick a sexually humiliated figure stripped of all importance.  The ritual is as nauseating as it is predictable."

Well said.

"What makes the Anthony Weiner story somewhat unique and thus worth discussing for a moment is that, as Hendrick Hertzberg points out, the pretense of substantive relevance (which, lame though it was in prior scandals, was at least maintained) has been more or less brazenly dispensed with here.  This isn't a case of illegal sex activity or gross hypocrisy (i.e., David Vitter, Larry Craig, Mark Foley (who built their careers on Family Values) or Eliot Spitzer (who viciously prosecuted trivial prostitution cases)).  There's no lying under oath (Clinton) or allegedly illegal payments (Ensign, Edwards).  From what is known, none of the women claim harassment and Weiner didn't even have actual sex with any of them.  This is just pure mucking around in the private, consensual, unquestionably legal private sexual affairs of someone for partisan gain, voyeuristic fun and the soothing fulfillment of judgmental condemnation.  And in that regard, it sets a new standard: the private sexual activities of public figures -- down to the most intimate details -- are now inherently newsworthy, without the need for any pretense of other relevance. "

But this is mistaken. The press knows all about the sordid affairs of politicians. They cover them up. What makes this different is Weiner broadcast his perversion on Twitter. Is the press supposed to continue covering for him when he can't even cover himself? I don't think so. Think Tiger Woods. When a public figure allows his salacious private life to go public, the press jumps on them to sell stories.

Mitt Romney might be the only Republican Obama can beat because so many of their policies are the same - government run health care, gun control, abortion, etc. - so naturally Romney is leading the Republican pack, at least according to the mainstream media.

"The Washington Post-ABC poll suggests that widespread concerns about the state of the economy continue to make President Obama vulnerable, despite questions about the quality of the GOP field. The survey shows that Romney, who formally launched his economy-focused campaign last week, is starting off strong."

Remember, Romney is the candidate the mainstream media wants to win because he's the most liberal and big government of the Republicans. Rudy Guilliani gets this right:

"According to Giuliani, Romney has "taken away people's freedom" with his requirement that Massachusetts residents purchase health insurance, and his failure to admit it was a mistake is damaging to the party."[It] hurts us in being able to overthrow 'Obamacare.' In a general election, that would be a very big issue," he said."

Romney would look like a joke trying to attack Obamacare in the general election. Obama would expose him for the self-serving, duplicitous jerk he is. It would be easy. It would stick. Romney is the only Republican who has such weakness against Obama. It's hard to imagine anybody on the right supporting him, but the establishment does, and with the the winner take all format and so many candidates in the race, he could win the nomination. Of course, with the economy going down the tubes, even Romney could beat Obama, but since they support pretty much all the same policies, who would want that?

This is a good Ron Paul ad.

Speaker Boehner gives the boilerplate Republican speech about cutting spending, taxes and regulations but offering no details as to what he'll cut, but it's a pack of lies the same as when ever other Republican gives it. He supports raising the debt ceiling.

On the single party, two almost identical factions, rule in America.

"I think they are completely right that they can only retain total power in the U.S. IF they repress all real, serious challenges of Real Reformers from outside and inside the Party. But what they apparently do not realize is that by creating a vast one party state that is steadily building a totalitarian police state with vast armies of secret police from the NSA to the CIA and DEA and on and on [sixteen visible secret police armies in the U.S.], they are dooming themselves and the u.s. to closure which prevents any effective reforms to adapt to the rapidly changing world situations, so they have doomed the party and the u.s. to implosion very much as the Soviet party rulers doomed themselves to implosion in the same way."

No doubt about it.

I still don't understand how a tea party person saying they would back whichever Republican wins the nomination exposes something bad about them. They're whole deal is about smaller government, and Obama is the biggest government president in history. Of course they're going to vote against him. And while many tea partiers are regular Republicans, most are not. And while many groups have been co-opted by the Republican establishment, some have not. It's definitely a grass roots movement, and I expect a number of establishment Republicans will be ousted by them in the 2012 primaries.

MEDIA:

The Daily Show's ratings soar. Foxnews ratings slump. For two years, Democrats had all the power, so attacking Republicans wasn't very entertaining. But now that Republicans control the House, attacking them is entertaining again.

LOCAL:

It's no wonder people are so economically illiterate when newspapers print articles like this:

"Local government leaders across the Miami Valley say they are not hiring or expanding services as the economy begins to recover, mirroring a national trend and reversing the trend of previous recessions."

What recovery?

"The Great Recession officially ended two years ago this month. By the same point during previous recoveries, governments were engines for growth"

Governments were engines for growth?

"For a while, federal stimulus spending cushioned the blow to state and local finances. But that money is running out. And it probably won’t be replenished as the federal government prepares to cut its own spending to shrink massive budget deficits."

How does stealing money from people cushion the blow?

"States such as Wisconsin, New Jersey and Ohio have first-term governors who “are trying to make their names by cutting spending,” says Joel Naroff of Naroff Economic Advisors."

Kasich's budget was bigger than the last budget. How is that cutting spending?

"Even if income tax receipts rise, many cities rely heavily on property tax revenue, which is threatened by foreclosures and the collapse in home prices."

How is having lower house prices so it's easier to buy a house a bad thing? While I'm happy to see government's cut spending - unlike these authors - these cuts aren't nearly enough to allow our economy to turn around and really grow.

MISC:

Eating some dirt might be good for you, but I doubt just running outside and eating the first dirt you run into is. This is not new information.

The brain responds nearly identically to physical and emotional pain.