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ECONOMY:

Mark Steyn on the Obama economy.

"Obama was in Toledo to "celebrate" the sale of the government's remaining stake in Chrysler to Fiat. ... The Treasury crowed that Fiat had agreed to pay a whopping $560 million for the government's Chrysler shares.Wow! 560 million smackeroos! If you laid them out end to end, they're equivalent to what the federal government borrows every three hours."

Smack! That had to hurt. This is the best Steyn essay I've read in a while.

"The American Dream, 2011: You pay four bucks a gallon to commute between your McJob and your underwater housing to prop up a spendaholic, grabafeelic, paramilitarized bureaucracy-without-end bankrupting your future at the rate of a fifth of a billion dollars every hour.In a sane world, Americans would be outraged at the government waste that confronts them everywhere you turn: The abolition of the federal Education Department and the TSA is the very least they should be demanding. Instead, our elites worry about sea levels.
The oceans will do just fine. It's America that's drowning."

Words like daggers to the government-lover's agenda.

TAX AND SPEND:

Interesting point about government bond holders.

"As for the irony, where do the government-bond-investing gurus think government gets the money to run up astronomical deficits? The government gets it from government-bond investors."

If nobody bought government debt, the government wouldn't be in debt. This is another argument for defaulting on the debt. The people who bought bonds have partnered with government to steal from the rest of us.

HEALTH CARE:

Call to legalize raw milk.

"Here, pasteurization is imposed by Big Dairy and enforced by the state."

It's a shame this is only mentioned in passing. Big dairy producers can easily ship their pasteurized milk all over the country, but it's more expensive and risky to do that with raw milk. That's why most raw milk is locally produced. But the big companies don't want to compete with the local producers, and since they're agents of the government, they sit down with their partners and write laws and regulations that ban raw milk so they don't have to face that competition. You can't tell where the government ends and the corporations begin.

GLOBAL WARMING AND ENERGY:

Solar cycle 24 went pretty much blank last month.

POLICE STATE:

New FBI manual documents increase in surveillance.

"Denoted the Domestic Investigations and Operations Guide, the manual officially lowers the bar of acceptability when it comes to engaging in surveillance activities, including allowing agents to perform such surveillance on people who are not suspected terrorists without opening an inquiry or officially recording their actions. The new manual also relaxes rules on administering lie detector tests, searching through a person's trash, and the use of teams to follow targeted individuals."

Government is a criminal organization that funds itself through theft. As such, it views the people it robs as enemies. We are all targets of the government.

POLITICS:

Prediction that all the Republican candidates will gang up against Ron Paul tonight. Wow. I love this prediction. I didn't care about this debate in the least until I read this prediction. I'm going to hunt down the video and watch it now.

Sometimes the link between politicians and pundits is so transparent, you can't help but laugh. For example, Obama supporter X says,

"I didn’t expect to think that Michele Bachmann would be the big winner of tonight’s Republican debate in New Hampshire, but that seemed the obvious conclusion."

What a joke. What this seemed was an obvious opportunity to boost his candidate. You don't believe me? How about this?

"If President Obama was watching, nothing that happened tonight made him quake in his boots. On the contrary, it was striking that the ideas on offer were largely conservative boilerplate: There is no problem, it seems, that can’t be solved by cutting taxes, slashing government and eviscerating regulations."

I feel feel dirty for reading this crap.

Even MSNBC recognizes the hypocrisy of Wiener Democrats. It's as if all the people in Washington are concerned about is their own power. Oh, wait...

This is a wonderful moment as Ron Paul is pressed to pick one of his co-candidates to join his administration. This might be the best political moment in the US since Reagan smacked Mondale about his age.

MEDIA:

After reading a number of worthless commentaries on the debate tonight, I finally found an article that projected honesty. Who would be surprised to discover that CNN prepared a "gotcha" debate for Republicans? I'm still looking forward to watching the entire debate. If it's true that the field steered clear of Romneycare, then politics is even more corrupt than I think it is, and that's hard to believe.  Romney and Gingrich have a big laugh together on stage.

LOCAL:

Apparently we're supposed to be angry that tax dollars support golf courses. As opposed to tax dollars supporting something else. Let's get this straight. All tax dollars are stolen from people at the barrel of the government's gun. So who are we to argue over how the thieves spend our money? And more importantly, who are we to decide which privileged people get to profit from that stolen money? Are golf course employees evil? Are ditch diggers any more noble? Are school teachers, funded by stolen funds, any more noble than grounds keepers funded by stolen funds? Give me a break.