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HEALTH CARE:

FDA covers up existence of mercury in tooth fillings. What else would you expect? Its job is to protect politicians' rich donors at the expense of the people, and the ADA is a powerful special interest.

The FDA doesn't wage war on raw milk because it's unhealthy. It wages war on raw milk because it's big corporate partners can't produce it. It's inherently a product of small, local farms, so it takes business from the big corporations.

POLICE STATE:

Suppose you were a terrorist in America. You wouldn't have to plant bombs. All you'd have to do is drop innocuous packages. Just like Americans have done for hundreds of years before.

LOCAL:

Government control of utilities destroys competition. The result is a lower quality product at a higher price.

MISC:

The Chinese government wants to capture an asteroid in Earth's orbit to mine.

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SOCIALISM:

Local unions in Wisconsin bar Republicans from Labor Day parade as if only union workers labor.

FREEDOM OF SPEECH:

Pakistani government bans internet encryption so they can read all internet communications.

Ohio Congressman Chabot who masquerades as a small government guy had police seize cell phones and video cameras at a town hall meeting so nobody could record it and post it on YouTube. He allowed the press to video the event because he trusts the press to suck up to power as it always does. But if he thought that he could keep this a secret, he was sadly mistaken. This is arrogation of rights under color of law and theft even if they were eventually returned. Chabot and the cops should be prosecuted, but don't hold your breath. Expect pretty much every politician to do this from now on.

EDUCATION:

Private, classical education.

HEALTH CARE:

US government medical experiments on Guatemalans.

"A presidential panel on Monday disclosed shocking new details of U.S. medical experiments done in Guatemala in the 1940s, including a decision to re-infect a dying woman in a syphilis study."

Different era excuse? People who lived in the 1940s are still alive.

This is a great quote:

"The Dearborn public schools in Michigan are gearing up for the big makeover - switching from low-sodium, low-fat, and fat-free junk foods to low-sodium, low-fat, and fat-free heart healthy, whole wheat junk foods."

Whole wheat has more toxins than bleached wheat, so it will make children sicker faster, just like the establishment wants.

GLOBAL WARMING AND ENERGY:

Now the government is waging war on guitars ostensibly to save the environment. You can't make this stuff up.

Reaction to CERN's test showing cosmic rays boost cloud formation.

WAR ON DRUGS:

How government regulation leads to the poisoning of drugs so companies can avoid those regulations. This is the same mechanism that motivated government officials to poison alcohol during prohibition so it would kill people to stop them from drinking.

POLICE STATE:

ATF director during Fast and Furious and other scandals will continue being paid by taxpayers, but in a different position. The US attorney for Phoenix resigned. Wow. Somebody lost their job. That's almost unheard of in the federal government.

Woman who resisted government agents' attempts to kidnap her child under color of law by firing a warning shot at the lead agent vindicated in court. It doesn't happen often, but thank goodness for her and her daughter it happened this time. I'll bet none of the crooks who tried to kidnap the daughter are fired, let alone prosecuted.

The number of FBI informants is skyrocketing. Can you think of any other governments that turned their people on one another and what happened to them?

WAR:

NATO has so blatantly abandoned its phony mandate to help protect people in Libya that...

"Lavoie said NATO would continue its mission as long as civilians in the country are under threat, although the area around the capital, Tripoli, is now “essentially free.”Lavoie appeared to struggle to explain how NATO strikes were protecting civilians at this stage in the conflict. Asked about NATO’s assertion that it hit 22 armed vehicles near Sirte on Monday, he was unable to say how the vehicles were threatening civilians, or whether they were in motion or parked."

This failure to lie successfully might be a firing offence, unlike every other seeming failure by a government official. NATO's mission was always regime change, and we're going to get blamed for abuses of this new government.

And it gets worse:

"His name is Abdelhakim Belhaj. Some in the Middle East might have, but few in the West and across the world would have heard of him. 
Time to catch up. Because the story of how an al-Qaeda asset turned out to be the top Libyan military commander in still war-torn Tripoli is bound to shatter - once again - that wilderness of mirrors that is the "war on terror", as well as deeply compromising the carefully constructed propaganda of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's (NATO's) "humanitarian" intervention in Libya."

Now that it's over, tell us all about it. A lot of people were talking about the al Qaeda connection while NATO was working as its air force, but few listened. Maybe they'll listen now.

"Muammar Gaddafi's fortress of Bab-al-Aziziyah was essentially invaded and conquered last week by Belhaj's men - who were at the forefront of a militia of Berbers from the mountains southwest of Tripoli. The militia is the so-called Tripoli Brigade, trained in secret for two months by US Special Forces. This turned out to be the rebels' most effective militia in six months of tribal/civil war.Already last Tuesday, Belhaj was gloating on how the battle was won, with Gaddafi forces escaping "like rats" (note that's the same metaphor used by Gaddafi himself to designate the rebels)."

This sounds familiar. How many times is our government going to train al Qaeda operatives only to have them turn around and attack us?

"Hardly by accident, all the top military rebel commanders are LIFG, from Belhaj in Tripoli to one Ismael as-Salabi in Benghazi and one Abdelhakim al-Assadi in Derna, not to mention a key asset, Ali Salabi, sitting at the core of the TNC. It was Salabi who negotiated with Saif al-Islam Gaddafi the "end" of LIFG's jihad, thus assuring the bright future of these born-again "freedom fighters". 
It doesn't require a crystal ball to picture the consequences of LIFG/AQIM - having conquered military power and being among the war "winners" - not remotely interested in relinquishing control just to please NATO's whims."

So while the government goons talk about staying in Afghanistan and Iraq to deny al Qaeda a safe haven, they just handed Libya over to al Qaeda. That tells you what they really think of al Qaeda as an enemy. Historic Christian church looted.

British special forces don Arab clothing in violation of the Geneva Convention in order to assassinate Qaddafi.

National Guard sign shows the mentality of people the government tries to hire:

"Get paid to blow things up."

And you wonder why so many government agents are thugs.

MEDIA:

Many examples of the absurd coverage of Irene.

LOCAL:

Local officials trying to bring 1,000 new parasitic political economy jobs to Fairborn-Springfield area.

MISC:

Do you think PETA ever protests Jack Links?

How FEMA wastes resources, making us more vulnerable to natural disasters and making it harder to recover from them. More on FEMA. More. Reminder of how FEMA was created and how it metastasized.

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GLOBAL WARMING AND ENERGY:

It looks like the updated death toll for Irene reached 35, most seemingly from inland flooding. That's because it was such a slow moving storm it dropped a lot of rain. But you didn't hear the media talking about that much until after it was over. It was all about the storm surge that might affect the really rich people who can afford to live right on the water. I didn't hear anything about possible flooding in Vermont, but it's experienced the worst floods in a century. This just goes to show all the blustering about Irene was a political-media charade. It was a 72 hour orgy of alarmism pretending to be news. They were trying to make themselves appear important and useful to all the rich people on the coast. One blogger reports that there are no measurements of Irene actually being a hurricane. If they would have accurately and honestly reported this non-hurricane, maybe some of those people who died in inland flooding would have lived. As one commenter in this thread says:

"But if they had downgraded it before landfall, then no politicians could have claimed credit for avoiding the Katrina scenario. It’s unfortunate that weather has become so politicized."

Amen. Another commenter explains why the media and government goons are pretending this storm was a hurricane and a major hurricane at that:

"It’s been over 1000 days since a real hurricane has made landfall in the U.S. Dr. Maue’s information shows us the ACE values of total cyclones are decreasing.The whole CAGW argument hinges upon our climate/weather events getting worse, not better. If a bit of warming is beneficial for us, (and it is) then the public doesn’t care. But, conversely, if they can show how hurricanes hitting the U.S. are increasing….. then they’ll correlate it to CO2 and CAGW.
In this particular storm, there were a few other groups with a vested interest in it being worse than it was. The media hyped it like no tomorrow…… people even suggested we needed a new Cat6! The current administration also wanted it to be worse than what it was, for two reasons. One, they wanted to demonstrate and contrast between the last administration, and two, we’ve recently raised the debt ceiling and that money is burning a hole in their pocket, they’d like another stimulus package but, a rebuilding package would have worked for them, as well."

It's a perfect storm of political interests. To illustrate the mentality of these global warming frauds, one wrote:

"It is doubtful that Irene will even cough up eight bodies..."

They root for deaths that will help them advance their political agendas. And it's an utter disgrace that political activist posing as scientist James Hansen is still being paid by taxpayers.

POLITICS:

Michelle Bachmann claims God is using natural disasters as a way to send a message to politicians, then later claims it was a joke. The joke's on us that that woman can get elected.

News outlets cry wolf

After 72 hours of uninterrupted coverage, Irene has been blamed for nine deaths. One of those was a traffic accident. One was a heart attack. Basically, if anybody died within 50 miles of that hurricane, even people on their death beds before it passed, their death is being blamed on the hurricane.

What a travesty. This coverage would be embarrassing if it wasn't so deadly. The boy who cried wolf would be embarrassed at the fear-mongering we saw over the last few days. According to Foxnews, 40,000 Americans die on government's carnage factories called highways. That's a 109 people a day. So the government crooks and their media propagandists have spent days pushing people out of their homes because of a minor hurricane into the daily highway massacre in the US. How many people died because the government and their media mouthpieces drove them out of their homes onto the government's carnage factories? We'll never know. But, given the statistics, we know darn good and well it was more people than the people who died by staying home and riding out the hurricane.

By the way, 200,000 Americans die from medical misadventure in the government-controlled medical establishment each year. That's 5,479 per day. It's far more likely you will die for no good reason at the hospital than on the highway, and its far more likely you will die on the highway than in hurricane. But government's propagandists show us government agents 24-7 for 72 hours to bolster their government masters. And make buckets of money by scaring the people into thinking a common hurricane is the apocalypse.

I'm sure the talking heads would say something like, "If it saves one life..." Baloney. They killed people with their alarmism by pushing them onto government's carnage factory highways, and they're happy about it because they made money and bolstered their government masters. When was the last time you saw them devote 72 hours of uninterrupted coverage of a category three or more hurricane hitting the Florida panhandle or Mississippi? If you aren't disgusted with this coverage, you weren't paying attention.

Government is head, shoulders, hips, knees and ankles above any other killer in the US every year, and its media propagandists promote it. If we got rid of it, hundreds of thousands of people who died each year would survive.

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FREEDOM OF SPEECH:

The FCC officially abandons the Fairness Doctrine, but that's no reason to celebrate. You can bet it will quickly introduce something similar or worse with a different name.

ECONOMY:

The number of people late on their mortgages rises again.

Americans are returning to traditional self-sufficiency. The author presents this a just sensible, but it undermines the division of labor which creates wealth. The deeper meaning is government is taking us backwards towards the stone age.

TAX AND SPEND:

Yet another article by a conservative blaming Democrats for spending as if he'd never heard of TARP, NCLB, Medicare Part D, the Bush farm bill, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and God knows what else. The talking heads on both sides do a wonderful job working the divide and conquer strategy on behalf of their ruling class masters.

FEDERAL RESERVE:

While politicians were distracting Americans with the $700 billion TARP fiasco, the Fed lent Wall Street $1.2 trillion. Don't look at the man behind the curtain stealing your money.

GLOBAL WARMING AND ENERGY:

Now the greens are going after modern farming techniques. The government is shutting down small farms and now they want to shut down big farms. How do you think that's going to work out for us? Can you stone age death and destruction? These people aren't interested in the environment. They aren't interested in people's health. They are against all human development, and they want to take everybody but themselves back to the stone age.

POLICE STATE:

Report claims the FBI agents organize almost all terrorist plots in the US to justify their exorbitant salaries.

Judge dismisses DSK charges.

WAR:

NATO's supposedly humanitarian mission has produced street fighting in Tripoli. I'm sure the families of the people who die in this deadly fighting will appreciate the phony humanitarian motives of Obama and NATO.

"Specific districts of Tripoli have become notorious for their antiregime protests during the six months of Libya's civil war, while other neighborhoods have remained forcibly allied with the leader—loyal men and families who owe their careers, tribal ties and social positions to Col. Gadhafi. These divisions have erupted in increasingly bloody street fighting this week, threatening a vacuum of power and a Balkanized break-up of this city of two million people."

The talking heads will call these unforeseen consequences, but I don't believe. The head crooks in the west knew darn good and well their support for the rebels would lead to chaotic, deadly, ongoing civil war. But they didn't care. They just wanted to guarantee that China didn't horn in on Libya's oil contracts. Once again US intervention abroad has turned a bad but tolerable situation, one that had improved through peaceful interaction, worse to enrich the ruling class. Reports that Qaddafi's son had been captured were wrong.

"The reappearance of Col. Gadhafi's son marks a major public relations debacle for the rebel leadership, who disseminated news of his arrest to Western allies. It remains unclear whether Seif el-Islam was apprehended and then escaped, or whether the rebel's facts were never confirmed. Videos of Seif el-Islam giving morale-boosting speeches to groups of armed men, apparently filmed Monday night, buzzed across Libyan-centered social media sites on Tuesday, adding to the embarrassment of the Benghazi leadership."

Never confirmed by the regime propagandists? What a surprise. The draft of the new Libyan constitution is based on Sharia. This keeps getting worse and worse. I'm happy for the people who ousted an oppressive dictator, but I fear Americans will pay for our government's involvement.

FOREIGN POLICY:

Why in the world should any American be willing to die for Israel? The best thing the US government can do for the people of Israel is to stop inflaming hostilities in the middle east.

POLITICS:

How Obama and Democrats are using the Cloward and Piven strategy of orchestrating crises in order to collapse our economy. The thing is, Bush and Republicans did the same thing, maybe with a different goal, but it worked exactly the same.

The key to understanding politics is to first understand the nature of government: its primary function is to loot the people and protect the rulers from the people. Once you understand that, watch politicians do compared to what they say. For example:

"President Obama has touted three pending U.S. trade deals as measures that could immediately spur job growth, if only Congress would approve them to become law.  The only problem: the White House has not yet formally sent the deals to Congress for a vote."

This tells us Obama doesn't want to create jobs. He's intentionally harming our economy. I know that makes him evil, but that doesn't make Republicans good. Republicans are just the same. They talk about reducing the burden of government to create jobs, but all they ever do is increase the burden of government as well.

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FREEDOM OF SPEECH:

The British government is intimidating Twitter, Facebook and others because rioters used social media to organize. The British government looked like the incompetent fools they are, and they're going to make somebody pay.

ECONOMY:

How government disincentives - taxes, regulation and inflation - have prompted American businesses to move manufacturing overseas to the point where we no longer have the ability to quickly reestablish if even if became profitable.

Robert Murphy suggests policy changes that would benefit minorities.

TAX AND SPEND:

Social Security disability fund to run out of money by 2017 or sooner. Politicians sucked people onto these programs, stealing their money so they could advance their own economic interests, and now they're going stiff the old people dependent on them. This article grossly understates the magnitude of the problem because the retirement trust fund doesn't have any money in it either. The politicians stole that money a second time and left nothing but IOUs in its place. But the American people will not allow government to steal more money to pay off those IOUs. All government actions divide the country, and this one divided the country between young and old, and young will win.

S&P president ousted after downgrading US government debt. Apparently he did not get permission, so he had to pay.

Government's own economists explain that dramatically smaller government would lead to dramatically greater prosperity and virtually eliminate poverty.

REGULATION:

Strong link between the minimum wage and job losses.

Big companies lobby for European court to allow software patents so they prevent the competition from improving on their ideas. This is another example of how government and big corporations partner to loot the people.

This is a good point rarely so clearly made every day: government intervention in the economy kills every day. In this example, government banned multiple yard sales specifically to stop a woman with terminal bone cancer who was selling her property to pay her medical bills.

HEALTH CARE:

Obamacare drives up the cost of Verizon health care, Verizon says unions must pay to offset the rising costs, and unions strike in response. Socialism begets more and worse socialism.

More Obamacare waivers.

"The Obama administration granted another 106 waivers last month from part of the healthcare reform law — the first round of three-year waivers the Health and Human Services Department has approved.The new approvals bring the total number of waivers to 1,472, according to HHS. Those figures cover waivers granted through the end of July. HHS will stop granting new waivers after September."

Even Obama knows this legislation is an obamanation.

GLOBAL WARMING AND ENERGY:

Corruption, looting the people, is behind Britain's wind farm scam.

Every time some ridiculous aspect of the great global warming fraud is exposed, sane people hope that it will be the end of this scam. Gore's meltdown won't end it any more than Climategate ended it. But hopefully it will hurt it. We're just one unusually warm year from the whole scam taking over again.

La nina is back. That seems odd.

It's always fun to look back at the failed predictions of climatologists like this guy who predicted global cooling from 1974 to 2010.

POLICE STATE:

DSK accuser's lawyer requests the prosecutor be removed from the case upon hearing that the case might be dropped.

"In the motion, which was filed in State Supreme Court in Manhattan, the accuser’s lawyer, Kenneth P. Thompson, provided new details that he said showed the district attorney mishandled the case. They include accusations that the district attorney’s office has been insensitive toward his client, and accusations that it improperly sabotaged her credibility. The motion was filed only hours before prosecutors were to meet with the woman to explain why they intend to drop the case."

They absolutely sabotaged her. That was arguably the most bizarre thing I've ever seen a prosecutor do in public. She should have filed this motion long ago.

"Legal experts said that Mr. Thompson’s motion was unlikely to succeed because the alleged victim in a case did not have the authority to ask that the prosecutor be removed. Prosecutors are also given broad discretion as to whether to go forward with a case, the experts said."

But it was a great, if belated, PR move that could impact any subsequent civil case.

FBI busted for spying on Antiwar.com and its staff specifically Justin Raimondo.

"“It is recommended that a PI be opened to determine if [redacted] are engaging in, or have engaged in, activities which constitute a threat to National Security on behalf of a foreign power.”Reading that, I could hardly believe my eyes. Yielding to a sudden need for fresh air, I went out into my garden and just sat there for a few moments, warming myself in the last rays of the setting sun. It all seemed so unreal. Was this really happening, or had I imagined the whole thing? I returned to my computer and read it again, just to be certain, and – sure enough – there it was, plain as the pixels on my screen: I was accused of being “a threat to National Security” and working “on behalf of a foreign power.”
What “foreign power” would that be – Libertopia? Galt’s Gulch?
On what evidence was this “preliminary investigation” opened – and is it continuing? We don’t know the answers to these questions because the FBI redacted a good deal of the information it released to the FOIA petitioner, an obscure blogger I’ve never heard of. If the feds have such evidence, then let them release it – instead of releasing heavily censored documents that simply make unsupported assertions. That this kind of systematic defamation is now part and parcel of our system of “law enforcement” makes a mockery of the idea that we live in a free society. We don’t, as this incident has brought home to be in a very personal way."

That's how police states operate.

WAR:

Sometimes the New York Times writes a good article like this one:

"The Scramble for Access to Libya’s Oil Wealth Begins"

"“We don’t have a problem with Western countries like Italians, French and U.K. companies,” Abdeljalil Mayouf, a spokesman for the Libyan rebel oil company Agoco, was quoted as saying by Reuters. “But we may have some political issues with Russia, China and Brazil.”"

"Colonel Qaddafi proved to be a problematic partner for the international oil companies, frequently raising fees and taxes and making other demands. A new government with close ties to NATO may be an easier partner for Western nations to deal with. Some experts say that given a free hand, oil companies could find considerably more oil in Libya than they were able to locate under the restrictions placed by the Qaddafi government."

This is the real reason NATO governments fomented this war with intelligence operatives and special forces and fought on the side of the rebels. The first problem created is already clear: Libyan rebel factions, of which al Qaeda is a member, now have access to Qaddafi's chemical weapons. We have nobody to blame but ourselves for our government that loots us, makes us sick and dead, and makes us vulnerable to foreign murderers.

"The official also confirmed that intelligence personnel from the U.S. and other countries have been in Libya in recent weeks to help maintain security at various sites, although he could not confirm Western personnel are currently at those locations. "Individual nations have folks on the ground," he said."

So much for the US not having boots on the ground. It's funny how US officials promoted the case that Saddam had WMD but didn't say a word about Qaddafi's WMD possibly falling into the hands of terrorists until after NATO had toppled him.  USA Today claims the ends justifies the means. Go tell it to the families of people NATO killed, and the consequences of attacking Libya will never end.

POLITICS:

Obama currently in pretty much a dead heat against Romney, Perry, Paul and Bachmann, but as the economy continues to slide, so will his numbers.

MEDIA:

Is the Wall Street Journal waking up? This article explaining that Obama is fundamentally changing America just like he promised makes me wonder. All those people who think Obama is failing never bothered to figure out who he was and what his agenda was. It's a shame the article doesn't mention Cloward and Piven, ACORN or Rev. Wright.

LOCAL:

Three out of four 2011 Ohio graduates who took the ACT, which means they intend to go to college, failed to meet college prep standards. Only government could fail that badly and remain in business. And it fails that badly at everything year after year after year.

It might be nice to have a super-shopping area like the Greene in Huber Heights, but it seems like a bad business idea. This area is depressed. I guess if you're counting on a rebound, a depressed area is a good place to build. But like the developer said on the TV news, this is a public-private partnership. In other words, the government is stealing money from citizens to partially fund it so the developer isn't assuming the entire risk for the project. He said no developer would do such a project if he had to assume all the risk. Then don't do it. If it's too risky for investors, then it's stupid to steal money from people to fund it. This shows again how government loots the people to enrich the politicians and their big business partners.

MISC:

Researchers discover fossil cells 3.4 billion years old, supposedly the oldest known fossils in the world. And they used sulfur for energy.

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LIBERTY:

Lemonade protest at the Capitol.

ECONOMY:

Obama says voters should judge him on the economy in 2012. I guess that makes sense to say right now. Voters are going to do it anyway, and it works to his advantage to look positive. He'll be singing a different tune this time next year. It's absurd that we should judge government officials based on our economy. If they had no power to mess it up, we'd be far better off.

Paul Krugman wants world governments to steal a bunch more of our money through inflation and deficit spending to build weapons to fight space aliens. I kid you not. Krugman claims this will bring us prosperity. And you thought bridges to nowhere were a waste or resources. Our sinking economy has really exposed the lunacy of leftists.

The New York Times discovers the dollar store.

FEDERAL RESERVE:

Ben Stein, claiming to give Rick Perry an economics lesson, supports the Fed printing money. Stein just showed himself to be a fool.

HEALTH CARE:

How the establishment's fight against the sun makes us unhealthy.

GLOBAL WARMING:

Kyoto agreement leads to corrupt reporting of greenhouse gas emissions. That's SOP for government. That means emissions are higher than reported, yet the planet is still not warming.

Economic decline is absolutely the real goal of many global warming frauds.

"He talks about federal policies that put the economy in a “graceful decline,” one that stimulates small-scale, organic farming and has more of a focus on activities in neighborhoods, towns and states than on national and international affairs. “We need to scale back, to go to ground,” he says in “Eaarth.”"

Most are smart enough not to tell the truth about their agenda.

WAR:

Contrary to what Obama has been telling us, he's pressuring Iraqi government to allow him to keep US troops in Iraq. He's also planning to keep troops in Afghanistan until 2024. How's that antiwar president working out for you lefties?

Military intelligence officer supports Ron Paul. This is good to hear.

As rebels oust Qaddafi this headline says ...

"Surveillance and Coordination With NATO Aided Rebels"

Not to mention bombs and bullets from NATO forces.

"The officials also said that coordination between NATO and the rebels, and among the loosely organized rebel groups themselves, had become more sophisticated and lethal in recent weeks, even though NATO’s mandate has been merely to protect civilians, not to take sides in the conflict."

Let's remember what our government did when the new leaders in Libya turn out worse than Qaddafi.

FOREIGN POLICY:

Hamas murders some Israelis. The Israeli government kills some terrorists in response. Hamas calls for ceasefire. Repeat. We've seen it a million times. We'll see it a million more. What a waste.

POLITICS:

Greta is the only mainstream talking head I've seen mention the cyber attack on Ron Paul's website during his money bomb.

To combat attacks on his age, Ron Paul challenges the other candidates to a bike race. I hope this tactic works, but I'm skeptical because the other candidates don't care about Paul's real capability, they're just attacking him for political reasons.

Karl Rove versus Rick Perry.

"Democrats now seem to have decided to portray him as crazier than that nice, centrist Mr Bush. The establishment media has eagerly followed suit. Speaking on PBS, the Washington Post’s Karen Tumultydeclared that while Bush’s conservatism was “born very much of hope and affirmation” while Perry’s was “born very much of anger”."

Suddenly Democrats like Rove.

MEDIA:

BBC admits to being propagandists for the British/US government coup in Iran in 1953.

Does Maria Sharapova have the best looking legs in the world?

Politics frustrates me so much, I often forget to have fun on this blog. Not today. After watching Maria Sharapova win her match this evening, I think it's appropriate to ask:

Does Maria Sharapova have the best looking legs in the world?

I would have preferred a different picture, but this is the best picture of her legs I could find.

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POLITICS:

Ron Paul's campaign manager claims Paul's website is under cyber-attack during Paul's birthday money bomb campaign. This is from the email I received at 12:08 AM 8/21/11:

"We thought it was bad when the media tried to ignore us to keep our message under wraps.  But it just got worse.
Earlier this evening, a cyberattack was launched on our website – shutting us down and robbing us of the last few hours of our money bomb.
Boy, the establishment is more desperate than I thought. They don't even want our message to get out ON OUR OWN WEBSITE now!
We will not be silenced, and our money bomb will not be deterred.

Before the attack, we were VERY close to our $1.5 million goal - now we're at $1.49 million and counting."

I see no report of this when I search Google news.

LOCAL:

Government dependency soars in the area. Big government in Washington, Ohio and Dayton have created this mess.

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LIBERTY:

Lemonade freedom day promotes civil disobedience by selling lemonade without a license. I love it. Three girls busted for selling lemonade.

ECONOMY:

This headline originally said "Stocks decline for second day." Now it says "Stocks begin to push higher." We've seen a whole bunch of that in the last couple weeks. Whenever stocks nosedive one day and begin the next with another nosedive, some force comes in and starts bidding them. I can't help but suspect market manipulation by the establishment attempting to prevent the correction the people are trying to effect in the stock market the same way they're trying to prevent every other bubble from popping.

Video of Ron Paul from 2003 predicting the housing bubble would burst. Show me another candidate who did the same. Ron Paul is the only candidate who knows what he's talking about and who, if elected, will stop the madness.

TAX AND SPEND:

I've always claimed leftists want to make everybody equally poor. A Democrat Senator accidentally speaks the truth by admitting he wants to eliminate the rich.

Obama austerity. Or not.

HEALTH CARE:

Obama's hypocrisy on the Obamacare mandate.

"Dear Leader announced that forcing us to buy medical insurance shouldn’t be “controversial.” Why not? “...look, everybody here at some point or another is going to need medical care and you can’t be a free rider on everybody else. You can’t not have health insurance then go to the emergency room and each of us, who have done the responsible thing and have health insurance, suddenly we have to pay the premiums for you. That’s not fair.”"

Apparently welfare isn't fair then either, right?

POLICE STATE:

Here's a case that shows how corrupt our justice system is: a judge releases the so-called Memphis three after 18 years in prison for brutally murdering three children, but before he would release them, he made them plead guilty. So either the judge just let murderers out of prison or he forced innocent men to plead guilty to a crime they did not commit. This is absurd.

ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION:

Obama stopping deportation proceedings for many illegal immigrants despite the law. This is another example of the remarkable lawlessness of the Obama administration.

FOREIGN POLICY:

Let's go to war with China. How about in Afghanistan? Politically connected corporations could enjoy more profits if we bombed the Afghans into submission. Hooray for the state!

POLITICS:

Michelle Bachmann tries to spin her time as a prosecutor for the IRS into a positive by saying it taught her how to fight the IRS. Why not? Somebody might believe her. It could well be that she thought government was great, but working for the IRS taught her otherwise. But if that was case, she would be talking about that transformation all the time.

MEDIA:

Martha McCallum tried to bait Ron Paul with an ad run by somebody who claims to be a supporter. He doesn't fall for it. I like his position on telling the truth.

The lack of media coverage of Paul may be backfiring.

Boortz asks why the media spends more time reporting on Rick Perry's boots than Obama's association with Marxists. Because the media associates with Marxists or they are Marxists too. That's natural to them, therefore t's not newsworthy. Cowboy boots aren't natural to them, therefore they are newsworthy.

LOCAL:

Local man sues village of Enon, it's mayor and police chief for false arrest, imprisonment and malicious prosecution. Imagine what would happen if you handcuffed somebody and locked them in a cage for criticizing you. It should be the same for those guys.

MISC:

Teen arranges solar panels like leaves on tree branches and generates 20 percent more power than standard solar arrays.

NASA spacecraft tracks and videos a CME from ejection to hitting Earth.

Dayton Construction

Here's the follow-up to my last Dayton Construction post. I took these pictures last weekend.

So far little has changed. We have a construction trailer down the street, so maybe they plan to begin construction in earnest.

The removed more of the play-scape, but they left the frames for the swing sets laying there.

They also knocked down a house, which they did very quietly. One day it was there. The next it was gone and the hole filled in. I didn't hear a thing.

There's starting to put up a bank for the road. The first picture is looking north from the next road over. The next picture is looking south along I-75.

They're also tearing up the road next to the old brick building, but they haven't touched the building yet.

And after a couple of years, they're almost done with intersection of Main under I-75. They've added decorative pedestals to along the road.

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ECONOMY:

This is an old quote, but it never gets old: Obama blaming innovation, ATMs and the internet, for unemployment.

TAX AND SPEND:

Now the Justice Department is intimidating, I mean investigating, S&P.

Supposed Republican tax cutter supports keeping gas taxes high. With supposed friends like these...

Republican on super-congress supports raising taxes. Of course he does. The point of the super-congress was to raise taxes, so Boehner and McConnell appointed Republicans who would support that.

The government racket of failed central plans applied to stimulus.

Comparison of Obama's policies to FDR's. We're repeating the mistakes of the past.

All the emergency EU meetings over PIIGS debt are worthless. They will default.

David Stockman, the former Reagan budget director who resigned because Reagan didn't want to cut spending, praises Ron Paul as the only Republican who knows what he's talking about on government spending, the Fed and the economy.

FEDERAL RESERVE:

The Fed is paying banks to not lend money.

Fed policy is keeping Americans from making the capital investments that would boost our economy.

HEALTH CARE:

Don't bother calling the USDA to find out about farm regulations.

GLOBAL WARMING AND ENERGY:

Did you ever wonder how far the media would go in their campaign of alarmism over global warming?

"Watching from afar, extraterrestrial beings might view changes in Earth's atmosphere as symptomatic of a civilisation growing out of control – and take drastic action to keep us from becoming a more serious threat, the researchers explain."

You can't make this stuff up.

POLICE STATE:

Praise for vigilantism. Our justice system has nothing to do with justice.

I do not understand parents who subject their children to TSA groping.

DHS hiding information about its mobile X-ray machines.

Police beat and kill a man for no reason. Their subsequent actions show that the US is a police state.

WAR:

More evidence that Pakistani forces supported the SEAL assassination of Osama bin Laden and new evidence a Pakistani intelligence officer discovered bin Laden and gave his location to the US government agents in hopes of collecting the $25 million reward.

FOREIGN POLICY:

Claim that unrest in Syria is being fomented by western intelligence agencies just like in Libya.

POLITICS:

Rick Perry doesn't like questions about his record on spending and debt. Better description of the encounter and of Perry's record of spending and debt. Perry's working the beltway crowd for funds, just like you'd expect. Bank of America backs Perry. Rick Perry is benefiting from his heated up rhetoric, which I've long advocated, but it's just a bunch of sound-bites. He doesn't seem to understand the economy or the Fed, he just knows how to wield a sound-bite for maximum effectiveness. He's not informing. He's not educating, and I don't think he can. And I'm not the only one who noticed.

Ron Paul reaches double digits, 14 percent, in New Hampshire, surpassing Michelle Bachmann. If New Hampshire is as libertarian as advertised, why does Mitt Romney have such a huge lead?

Katherine Mangu-Ward, the supposedly libertarian editor for Reason magazine, calls Ron Paul unelectable. With supposed friends like these...

Bachmann has to be disappointed with her margin of victory in Ames, but not with the subsequent media coverage.

Interesting analysis of Romney's quandary.

I'm happy Obama and Congress are on vacation. While they're on vacation they don't do any more damage.

The primary function of the modern president is to be fund-raiser-in-chief. The government runs itself.

MEDIA:

The Washington press doesn't want to talk about Ron Paul, but they want to hear him. He's the only candidate who sold out his speech to them, and he doesn't speak until October.

The Pew media center documents the news blackout about Ron Paul.

George Stephanopoulos, former Bill Clinton political appointee turned supposedly unbiased journalist, calls companies that move jobs overseas to escape high US tax rates unpatriotic.

Russia Today gives Ron Paul favorable coverage. I'm sure the Russian government would love for the US to shut down all its foreign bases.

LOCAL:

City government to steal more of our money using red-light cameras and removing tax credits. Do you think they'll tax us into prosperity?

MISC:

This article does a pretty good job of explaining how bad Mike Brown is. Please, Bengals fans, boycott this loser so he'll leave Cincinnati and we can get a real football team.


Water is a scarce resource, and as such it should be traded on a free market guided by prices.


I don't think US riots will be the worst in the world because rioters don't want to get shot.

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RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS:

BATF promotes three supervisors responsible for the operation fast and furious fiasco. Only government.

ECONOMY:

Obama wants everybody to be equally poor, and he's making it happen.

REGULATION:

SEC busted for destroying files to protect its big Wall Street partners at the height of the financial crisis. This is an important reminder that government always works for the rich and powerful against the people. And that only makes sense. How could the poor control the levers of power over the rich? It's not possible. Government is always the tool of the rich and powerful to loot the people and protect them from the people they loot, and it can never be any other way.

China deregulates Hong Kong, further increasing its economic freedom so it can become a stronger engine for wealth creation and prosperity. It's outrageous that Americans are enabling the burden of government to grow and take our economy and us down the drain while the supposedly communist Chinese advance economic freedom and enjoy ever greater prosperity as a result.

FEDERAL RESERVE:

After Rick Perry did his best impression of Ron Paul, adding a bunch of fake Texas charm, by attacking Bernanke and the Fed, he admits his Bilderberg financeers lectured him about challenging the Fed. He followed the marching orders he was given and toned down his criticism.


HEALTH CARE:

Detroit public schools to push government food on every student under the guise of not hurting the feelings of poor children. Government is driving another wedge between parents and children and making children more unhealthy so big-Agra, big-Pharma and big-Med can get richer and so the politicians can control more of our money and skim off the top.

GLOBAL WARMING AND ENERGY:

Michelle Bachmann shows her ignorance of economics and politics by promising to reduce gas prices to below $2 a gallon. Maybe I'm being hard on her. Maybe she isn't being stupid but a liar. Supply of oil is pretty rigid. Demand determines prices. Sure, opening up more places for drilling will lower prices, but not as much as demand. If the US economy is growing, gas prices will be high. If the Fed is printing money, gas prices will be high. The only way to keep gas prices low is put the economy into the dumper and stop printing money, and those things are mutually exclusive in our political system.

POLICE STATE:

The danger of trying to secure against lone wolf terrorists is that as far as government is concerned, every individual is a suspect. I have a better plan: dramatically reduce the size and scope of government so people won't be so pissed at government they get violent.

POLITICS:

Another reason to support Ron Paul:

"From Ron Paul’s Statement of Faith: "My faith is a deeply private issue to me, and I don’t speak on it in great detail during my speeches because I want to avoid any appearance of exploiting it for political gain.""

Thank goodness at least one candidate feels this way.

Rick Perry enjoys a double-digit lead over Romney, but that's only because he just entered the race and did it with a splash. The novelty will wear off and he will suffer from attacks. The same poll shows Paul at 9 percent, still in single digits. But he's been steadily rising. If he can get into double digits, maybe this baloney about him being unelectable will fade and he can take off.

Ron Paul mocks Rick Perry with class. Ron Paul is class act. That's probably his biggest weakness.

Obama's approval rating on the economy falls to 26 percent. I guess Warren Buffet and Obama's Wall Street cronies make up the 26 percent.

MISC:

Thomas Sowell points to black flash mob violence as an example of behavior differences between blacks and other Americans that lead to more blacks being arrested and unemployed.

Super scrabble players have brains more adept at pattern matching for words than other people. What else would you expect? Scientists would think they're wonderful for discovering people need air to breath.

I don't want to hear about the NCAA maybe giving Miami the death penalty. I want to hear about the American people giving the NCAA the death penalty. The NCAA creates the conditions that promote all this outrageous behavior of student-athletes. If there was a free market for college athletes, this stuff would be almost unheard of. They'd focus on their game so they could make more money instead of doing all this wild stuff. And they would be better prepared for life and the NFL to boot. The ones who put hedonism above work ethic would be washed out.

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FREEDOM OF SPEECH:

In defense of internet anonymity. This is a freedom of speech. If I want to call myself lostinwilderness, that's my right. I have no right to do that on Google+ because Google owns that service, but the government has no legitimate power to stop anyone from being anonymous online.

RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS:

After Virginia allowed guns in bars, the number of major gun crimes in bars dropped, just as anything thinking person would expect.

ECONOMY:

It looks like European governments are dragging Europe into a double-dip recession.

There's no doubt about the strength of the Texas economy. That strength comes from decades of capital investment. But Rick Perry's big spending and big debt are already undermining that economy, and it's illustrated by 8 percent unemployment.

Here's a pretty good list showing how the marketplace has made people fantastically more wealthy over the last 60 years.

TAX AND SPEND:

Massive government spending has never led to prosperity. It never can.

Despite the S&P downgrade, US treasuries are trading at lowest yields ever.

REGULATION:

Like night follows day, here come the calls for government regulation of outdoor stages in Indiana after the collapse of the stage at the Indiana state fair. Who knew Indiana had a Department of Homeland Security?

FEDERAL RESERVE:

It's good to see Rick Perry take a shot at Ben Bernanke. This shows that the mainstream is moving rapidly toward Ron Paul.

HEALTH CARE:

Mark Sisson destroys the recently publicized story linking red meat and diabetes. It turns out the biggest red meat eaters had extremely unhealthy lifestyles and variables like carbs, calories, transfats and exercise weren't controlled for. This is another government-funded, establishment pseudo-scientific attempt to keep us sick so we'll keep funding big Agra, big Pharma and big Med.

GLOBAL WARMING AND ENERGY:

Not too long ago I read an article about how solar power was finally competitive. That may be true, but the solar panel producer Obama pointed to as ushering in the green jobs revolution has filed for bankruptcy, so I'm still skeptical.

POLICE STATE:

Blaming inflation, welfare and warfare for the British riots. All those things systematically undermine individual dignity and morality.

WAR:

NATO has been firing missiles and dropping bombs on Libya since March, but it condemns the Libyan government for firing a missile in response.

ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION:

Arizona's tough anti-illegal immigration law has resulted in fewer illegal immigrants entering Arizona and therefore fewer deaths.

POLITICS:

Some facts about big-government, ex-Democrat Rick Perry. The National Review hopes to frame the debate about Rick Perry with five questions, none of which address his big spending, big debt policies and his past as a Democrat. They are doing their job: distracting Americans from the important issues.

I said that Rick Perry strongly reminds me of Bill Clinton, from both an intellectual and visceral perspective, so I'm not the least bit surprised to read this:

"[Clinton] hailed Rick Perry yesterday, in a talk to government firemen, as "a handsome rascal.""

Two peas in a pod. Clinton's a Bilderberger too.

Pretty good Ron Paul ad taps into a little patriot fervor with the music and presentation. People like that stuff. Anchor man asks if Ron Paul is the only adult in the race Yes. If by adult you mean not a thief, yes.

Obama's approval rating is the lowest for a first term president since Jimmy Carter. Obama's approval rating is at an all time low with blacks, women and Democrats. People who vote Democrat always hate it when they get exactly what they vote for. Bill Clinton was lucky he had a Republican Congress to stop him from trashing our economy like Carter and Obama. But to his credit, he did reduce regulations.

Remember when I said Paul Ryan was pretending to be a budget-cutter in order to advance his own power? He's considering running for president.

Two Wisconsin Democratic senators survived recall elections. So basically, there's no change in Wisconsin.

MEDIA:

John Stewart blasts the media for ignoring Ron Paul.

This interview on Russia Today shows that Russian media is light years superior to US media.

MISC:

Famous lawyer Clarence Darrow describes the nature of the state.

Archeological evidences shows primitive states were organized for war.

"With the same process now documented in both North and South America, “we are coming closer to having a model for pristine state formation that may have worldwide significance,” Dr. Marcus said. “It also shows that our species, when thrust into almost identical circumstances, behaves in almost identical ways.”"

As I've repeatedly pointed out, we're genetically programmed for government. It's an outgrowth of our familial instinct. Otherwise it wouldn't exist because it has no value to the vast majority, only the minority rulers.

"Dr. Stanish believes that warfare was the midwife of the first states that arose in many regions of the world, including Mesopotamia and China as well as the Americas."

War is the health of the state, and apparently it always has been.

"Warfare “may have contributed to the spread of human altruism,” he and his colleague Herbert Gintis write in their new book, “A Cooperative Species”(Princeton, 2011). “We initially recoiled at this unpleasant and surprising conclusion. But the simulations and the data on prehistoric warfare tell a convincing story.”"

It makes perfect sense. If you ask a soldier why he fights, he'll almost always say for his buddy next to him.

"Archaeology lends some support to the idea. “Groups that successfully organize themselves to raid others will acquire external resources and, in the long run, will be at a selective advantage against groups that are less well organized,” Dr. Stanish and Dr. Levine write of their findings in the Central Andes."

But both groups would have been better served by trade. But if a predator seizes power over his own tribe, he can seize more power by raiding another. So predation is self-enforcing.

"As the population in a region grew larger and richer, regional chiefdoms would form and start raiding one another for plunder. “Once this kicks in, it sets up a dynamic in which it’s hard to be peaceful,” Dr. Stanish said. “You either organize on a regional level or get killed or absorbed.”"

Grouping together is important to defend from organized predators. Thus government provides for the common defense. This is the biggest flaw of proponents of anarchy in my mind. Historically, they can't defend against organized predators. They're subject to being divided and conquered. Maybe in the modern would that would be different because a private defense force protecting a rich society could deploy very destructive high-tech weapons as a deterrent.

God bless the divine rocket scientists at NASA who have graced SpaceX with permission to visit the ISS.
Who will bow down with me?

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RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS:

The decivilizing effects of gun control illustrated by the London riots. This is an important difference between Europe and the US. While many big cities have banned guns, the country hasn't, and those in big cities can quickly buy guns even if illegal. This is serious deterrent to widespread, long riots like we're seeing in London. It's also a major reason why Obama's attempt to spark a Marxist revolution will fail. This article is writing in condescending style. Yuck. But it's still accurate.

"In the wake of the recent violence, British property owners have had to resort to alternative means of self-defense. Amazon.co.uk reported that baton and aluminum baseball bat sales soared over 5,000 percent overnight on the third day of the riots. One customer wrote the following review:This bat is perfectly weighted and will suit any UK shop-owner looking to protect their property. Thanks to the ergonomic handle, one easy swing should be enough to shatter patellas, skulls or any other bone on your targeted looter. Personally, I would recommend also investing in some fingerless gloves for extra grip.
"

It's sad the government disarmed these people and turned them into easy victims. Same with anybody else in the world disarmed by government, like the victims of the mass murderer in Norway.

ECONOMY:

Great quote exposed the absurdity of Keynesianism:

"If people would just go to the mall and blow their paychecks already, we could get this economy back on its feet."

Do you think Paul Krugman is saving his money or blowing it all at the mall? I still believe that the smart Keynesians are lying.
"Alas, even though the Keynesians tell us that all would be fine if people would just stop saving so much, this is a free country after all. Thus far, nobody has proposed forcing people to go out and buy new plasma-screen TVs. Instead, the pundits call for governments to spend the (borrowed) money in order to maintain aggregate demand. They think this prescription is a matter of simple arithmetic: if the private sector is (on net) reducing its indebtedness, then the only way to keep total incomes from falling is for the government to step in and increase its indebtedness."
Government could order every American to buy a Chevy Volt. It could kill two birds and the biggest economy on earth with one stone.

TAX AND SPEND:

Great chart shows that the US corporate tax rate is uncompetitive.

So if 26 percent is better than 39, 13 percent is better than 26 and 0 percent is best of all.

Warren Buffet continues to call on higher taxes for the rich because he makes significantly more money in the political economy than he pays in taxes. The more government taxes, the more it spends, the richer Warren Buffet gets but the poorer the rest of us become.

Not too long ago I pointed out that the Texas government, in spite of its history that has made it the heart of job creation in America, had been significantly increasing spending. It turns out that much of that spending was funded by debt thanks to Rick Perry. Texans better turn around that trend fast, and I hope nobody votes for the Republican Slick Willie.

REGULATION:

This is how government claims to create jobs:

"The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been promoting the job creation and health aspects of its impending regulations on the electric industry, but in congressional testimony an agency official admitted the impending regulations would cost business $10.9 billion and create only 9,000 full time jobs."

How much is that per job?

"Mathematically, the answer is $1.21 million per job."

That's what seen. But what about what's unseen? Suppose an average private sector jobs costs $50,000 a year. That means 14 jobs will be destroyed in the private sector for each job created in the political economy.

Government corrupts everything it touches. Here's an example where Apple corrupted evidence it used in a patent claim to exclude Samsung from the EU market.

Google to buy Motorola Mobility, getting into cell phone hardware. I wouldn't be surprised if this blows up in their faces partly because hardware is new to Google, partly because the more parts of a process a company owns, the more it loses the price information necessary to make intelligent decisions and partly because it will put Google in competition with many of its partners. Steven Kinsella theorizes that Google is buying Motorola Mobility to obtain its patents to protect Android. $12.5 billion is a little steep since it wouldn't bid over $3 for Nortel's. Maybe Motorola's patent portfolio is four times more valuable. I'm sure patents played into the decision. The Washington Post agrees that patent strategy was a big factor in this decision. PC magazine suggests the Windows phone may benefit from Google alienating its partners. This deal has raised a lot of questions. It looks like the iPhone may have been copied from Android.

"Google is actively positioning the deal not as a means to buy its way into the handset market, but as an opportunity to buy Motorola’s portfolio of patents — some 17,000 of them."

So maybe that is worth four times the Nortel portfolio, but I don't believe that's all there is to this deal. Google will compete with its partners. That's just how these things work. If I'm wrong, Google will turn around and sell the business minus the patents. It may be forced to do that in the long run, but don't hold your breath. The New York Times also sees through the patent explanation.

"Google’s focus on the patents rather than the handset business makes almost too much sense: Google’s Android operating system has long been “open” and is used by a large ecosystem of handset makers including Samsung and HTC.These companies have invested billions of dollars in its Android-based operations and helped make Android more popular than Apple’s mobile operating system. Those handset makers will now have to compete against Google.
“Google can’t admit in public that what they intend to do is eventually make Android proprietary,” said Tavis McCourt, an analyst at Morgan Keegan Equity Research. Despite Google’s protestations, Mr. McCourt believes that in two to three years — after Motorola increases its distribution channels in Europe, where it is weak compared to Samsung and others — Google will seek to start closing Android’s platform or begin building special features on its own phones that are not available to its “partners.”"

That's what I'm talking about.

FEDERAL RESERVE:

Its the 40th anniversary since Nixon abolished the last vestiges of the gold standard. In the big scheme of things, it's amazing how fast central banks destroy fiat money. 40 years for us. A little over a decade for Europe. It's not like the process is so slow that people can't remember.

Great cartoon contrasts the small-time crooks stealing stuff in the London riots with the big-time crooks stealing all of America at the Federal Reserve:

Great.

GLOBAL WARMING AND MEDIA:

Remember how deforestation supposedly increases global warming? Now growing forests supposedly increases global warming too. In other words, all activity on the planet increases global warming. Soon they'll claim that carbon scrubbing and sequestration schemes increases global warming. Be very afraid. These frauds will say anything in hopes of scaring people into giving them power to control the very air we breath.

POLICE STATE:

These flash mobs scare me not so much because of the mobs themselves but because the government will use them as an excuse to escalate violence against all of us.

A British paper is reporting that Australian authorities have arrested a man in the US for a fake collar bomb. Regardless of whether this arrest is justified, maybe this section should be called police world.

Yet another case of a cop trying to have somebody who videoed him brutally beating a civilian arrested. Note the cop was suspended for 45 days, not prosecuted for assault. It would be nice to think that centralized power in the Supreme Court would put a stop to this abuse, but it won't.

WAR:

Synchronized bombs in 13 Iraqi cities kill 74 and wound 250. The sooner we get US troops out of there, the better.

FOREIGN POLICY:

It looks like Obama is using Turkey and Saudi Arabia as proxies to threaten Syria. Here our government goes again, meddling in affairs that our none of its business. This is the kind of meddling that causes blowback which hurts Americans.

Our government's war in Afghanistan and aggression in Pakistan are driving the Pakistanis into the arms of the Chinese.

POLITICS:

Description of how Michelle Bachmann campaigns.

"But Bachmann campaigned like a celebrity. And the event highlighted the brittle, presidential-style cocoon that has become her campaign’s signature: a routine of late entries, unexplained absences, quick exits, sharp-elbowed handlers with matching lapel pins, and pre-selected questioners.She camped out in her bus, parked on the street in front of a nearby Ramada Hotel, until it was time to take the stage. Even after a local official’s introduction, Bachmann was nowhere to be found. It was not until a second staffer assured her that the lighting had been changed and a second introduction piped over the loudspeakers that she entered the former dance hall here. By the time she made her big entrance to bright lights and blaring music, the crowd seemed puzzled.
Bachmann’s stump speech drew mostly polite applause until she closed by giving a large apple pie to “the oldest mother in the room” — a local centenarian.
Then she stayed on stage, signing T-shirts from above, which her staff then distributed to a steady but not overwhelming crowd.
Finally, she swept through what was by then an empty ballroom behind a phalanx of six aides who shielded her from reporters and the handful of Iowans who remained.
“She kept us waiting, she was not here mixing — then she was talking about what a great evening it was. How do you know? You just got here,” said Karen Vanderkrol, of Hudson, Iowa, who said she agreed with the substance of Bachmann’s speech, but that one line in particular"

That's not going to work.

This is pretty good.

I don't think Ron Paul is a genius, but all those other guys are certainly dunces by comparison. But as government brings our economy down, Paul looks more and more like a genius. That's why

"Since 2008, the issues and the electorate have moved in his direction."

And that's why he could win in Iowa and possibly win the nomination.

Liberals keep asking what happened to Barack Obama. Nothing. He's the same guy who wanted to collapse our economy under the burden of government that he's always been. We're experiencing the inevitable result of big government. If Barack Obama disappointed the world, it's because the world is stupid. Obama is exactly what his record showed him to be, and the consequences of his policies are exactly as expected.

I'm not usually impressed with the Christian Science Monitor, but this headline asks a great question:

"Why are taxpayers funding President Obama's Midwest bus tour?"

Some might say the majority supports Obama. Apparently only 39 percent support Obama, so no. This is just the nature of government. The looters in power use all money stolen from taxpayers to their economic advantage. This is no different than funding warfare or welfare. It's all stolen money, and it's all used to the advantage of our rulers at our expense and against the will of many. So a better question might be: why is this any different than any other government spending? And suppose for the sake of argument a majority did support Obama. Is it OK to steal money from the rest for him to use as he pleases? Of course not.

Imagine if ten guys broke down your door and said they were forming a government, and you were privileged to vote. The first order of business would be for the eleven of you to vote for a leader. Two of them argue about why they should vote for them. Regardless of who you voted for, even yourself, one of them would get voted in as leader. Suppose next the leader proposes they vote to seize all your property so the government could do good works. Needless to say, you would lose that vote too. Is this legitimate? Majority rules, right? How is this any different than the US political system?

I really don't like the religious references to politicians. I'm sure many people, including libertarians, support them when they work in their favor and criticize them when they don't, but I never like them. I think they're always manipulative. Including this religious association to Ron Paul.

Criticism of Perry is already starting. For example, he used to be a Democrat. Maybe is strong support for gun rights prompted him to switch parties. Perry now attacked because his donors have made fortunes in the political economy as if the donors of every other politicians hasn't. Do you think they would donate if they didn't get something in return? Do you think they would get a contract if they didn't donate? How do you think Obama's donors are doing? This has been the way it's been done since government was created.

MEDIA:

Yesterday US Today told us it was a three way race between Romney, Perry and Bachmann. Today Foxnews does the same, naming the same candidates. CNN is talking about Perry and Bachmann being able to challenge Romney. The supposed difference between the liberal media and Foxnews is as insignificant as the supposed difference between Democrats and Republicans. They're all on the side of our rulers against the people. Despite his performance in the straw poll, or because of it, nobody in the media asked to interview Ron Paul. They're trying to make him as invisible as possible. A liberal media person reports the media is giving Paul the shaft.

In an article criticizing Meet the Press, I like this quote:

"I'm sure if I discussed all this with the talking heads who were on the panel, I'd hear what I always hear from liberal commentators: Ron Paul is "unelectable."
Perhaps you believe that. If you do, you're either a Democratic operative or a moron.

Check this page of polling data from Real Clear politics. Of all the candidates in the field, Ron Paul lines up best against President Obama with the single exception of Mitt Romney. And Romney's going to have a tough time getting through the primaries if this straw poll is any indication."

The function of the media is to misinform Americans. It's to distract us from the ruling class hand stealing our wallet. They'll keep saying Ron Paul is unelectable right up until he wins because they're phony-baloney jobs are at risk if he wins.

MISC:

Mark Steyn has this right:

"Several readers wrote to taunt me for not having anything to say on the London riots. As it happens, Chapter Five of my book is called "The New Britannia: The Depraved City." You have to get up pretty early in the morning to beat me to Western Civilization's descent into barbarism. Anyone who's read it will fully understand what's happening on the streets of London. The downgrade and the riots are part of the same story: Big Government debauches not only a nation's finances but its human capital, too."

Government is the enemy of civilization. It's dragging us back into barbarism. Here's a great line from his book that defines the police state:

"In Britain, everything is policed except crime."

And the US is following right behind. Besides his apology for the British empire, the only thing I disagree about in this article is that Steyn blames the liberal welfare state as if Republicans didn't create Medicare Part D, welfare to churches, No Child Left Behind, and as if they didn't expand Medicare, SCHIP and dozens of other welfare programs. Also as if Republicans haven't dramatically increased the police state in the US. Blaming one party cannot solve our problems. Government is the problem.

Mussels discovered with bacterial that convert hydrogen to energy, biological hydrogen fuel cells.

In praise of flee markets.