This Winter Has Been Too Cold

Just two weeks ago we were covered up with snow.  Not very deep but because of the cold it stuck for a couple of days.  This is the crepe myrtle in front of the house, ready for spring pruning.

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RONALD REAGAN speaks out against SOCIALIZED MEDICINE

Ronald Reagon speaks in an LP recording, delivering an essay about socialized medicine. Within he quotes Norman Mattoon Thomas, a six time candidate for President, who suggested the liberal characterization in order to obfuscate backlash toward socialists.  Today we see the same hand wringing over the label of liberal versus progressive.
Liberals, progressives, or socialists, at the bottom if you study Ely is a general beleif system in a rulling class lording over a needful class. This is a rejection of natural law upon which the Constitution was founded. 
Citizen rights come from God not people and especially not elected people.

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This Woman Might Be A Bitch

Classic.
I am too cheap to give money to women for as little as shaking their ass
This is a good reason to stay away from the entire profession.
They are whacked out.

Duke lacrosse accuser charged with attempted murder, arson :: WRAL.com

Election 2010: Georgia Governor

A couple of weeks ago I listened to the Georgia Democratic candidates for governor debate that was held in Athens. Roy Barnes was a smug jerk through the entire ordeal.  He acted as if he was the governor of education, when every teacher I know wouldn't mind seeing him run over by  the short bus.
And every teacher I know is a lot, there are five teachers in my immediate family, they all think he is arrogant and abusive.
The Republican candidates are not shaping up so well, but at least they are all carrying a better chance of success than the man who killed the flag.

 Election 2010: Georgia Governor

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Responding To Your Message

DGJ sent this to me, looks like he was trying to inform the Senator that he was against S379.  The response from our illustrious Senator suggests that his mind is made up, he is voting for it.  Chambliss uses the argument that since satellite radio has to pay a special tax, why shouldn’t terrestrial.  The correct answer Mr. Chambliss is, get rid of the tax on internet, satellite and cable companies.

My satellite bill showed up the other day and added $20.00 per unit tack on fee to cover this damned tax. Forty dollars I am paying to the government now, extra, for a service I chose to purchase when there was no such tax.
The Chambliss argument is to screw all consumers.

We da the gubmit, and we need MO MONEY.

Should that be…
We da the gubmit, and we need YO MONEY. 

This is the email he received.

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What a cop out of a response...

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From: Saxby Chambliss [mailto:saxby_chambliss@chambliss.senate.gov]
Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 2010 10:04 AM
Subject: Responding to your message

Dear Mr. Johnson:

Thank you for contacting me regarding S. 379, the "Performance Rights Act." It is good to hear from you. 

           S. 379 was introduced on February 4, 2009, and was placed on the Senate calendar on October 15, 2009.  Currently, internet, satellite, and cable radio stations are required to pay royalties for the music that they are playing.  However, terrestrial radio stations are exempt from paying these royalties, and this legislation would end this exemption.  

             This bill would allow public radio stations and private radio stations with gross revenues of less than $1.2 million to elect to pay a flat fee per year in royalties for their broadcast transmissions.  Religious organizations would continue to remain free from paying fees associated with royalties.  Should this legislation come before the Senate, I will keep your views in mind. 

If you would like to receive timely email alerts regarding the latest congressional actions and my weekly e-newsletter, please sign up via my web site at: www.chambliss.senate.gov . Please let me know whenever I may be of assistance.

New Ayn Rand Study Published

Worth the 15 minutes it takes to listen.
Mr. Driscoll feeds this doctoral author, questions on the how Ayn Rand related to the politicians of her aday, how she would relate to the current parties and the upswing of the Tea Party movement.

Ed Driscoll » New Silicon Graffiti Video: “Ayn Rand: Goddess Of The Market”

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How FDR's New Deal Harmed Millions of Poor People

DGJ sent me a link to an interesting article published on the Cato website.
Briefly is describes the effect of New Deal regionally and on the overall economy.
With the massive New Deal programs came taxes, these were used to redistribute income stable Democratic states to swing states where the money would have greater vote purchasing power.
Author Jim Powell says....

A whole generation of Southern's worshipped FDR, while he robbing their wallets.  We have similar promises today, grandiose promises of protection for the needy, while building a tool of taxation that by application hurts those that need the help the most.  Our government should not be stealing from the poor, in the name of saving the poor, for the sake of buying votes.

The largest share of New Deal spending and loan programs went to political "swing" states in the West and East - where incomes were at least 60% higher than in the South.

Link to article:  http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=3357

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Census 2010

A couple of weeks ago while I was staying at a Knoxville Tennessee hotel for a week.   For a couple of days while I was there this trailer was in the parking lot.  They had this beautiful dually pickup truck for trailing it around the country.  The paint job on the $50,000 truck must have cost $10,000, this trailer must have cost another $100,000.  And for what, to travel around the country and make people feel better about being counted.  Or to teach the people how to be counted?  There's a good chance that there are hundred of these rigs floating around the country, millions of dollars in hardware, not to mention the millions spent on the blood sucking worthless government employees who are tasked with fufilling a chore that has been perverted and bloated by poiticians.
If I were a news reporter, the first thing I would be looking for is evidence that the party in power has hired Acorn government subversives, and they are subversives, to fake the count and cook the books, making urban areas more powerful than they deserve. 
Next is an article offered by Walter E. Williams on the census, titled The Census and the Constitution, published February 17, 2010 on GOPUSA.

The Census Bureau estimates that the life cycle cost of the 2010 Census will be from $13.7 billion to $14.5 billion, making it the costliest census in the nation's history. Suppose you suggest to a congressman that given our budget crisis, we could save some money by dispensing with the 2010 census. I guarantee you that he'll say something along the lines that the Constitution mandates a decennial counting of the American people and he would be absolutely right. Article I, Section 2 of our constitution reads: "The actual Enumeration shall be made within three Years after the first Meeting of the Congress of the United States, and within every subsequent Term of ten Years, in such Manner as they shall by Law direct."


What purpose did the Constitution's framers have in mind ordering an enumeration or count of the American people every 10 years? The purpose of the headcount is to apportion the number of seats in the House of Representatives and derived from that, along with two senators from each state, the number of electors to the Electoral College.


The Census Bureau tells us that this year, it will use a shorter questionnaire, consisting of only 10 questions. From what I see, only one of them serves the constitutional purpose of enumeration -- namely, "How many people were living or staying at this house, apartment or mobile home on April 1, 2010?" The Census Bureau's shorter questionnaire claim is deceptive at best.


The American Community Survey, long form, that used to be sent to 1 in 6 households during the decennial count, is now being sent to many people every year. Here's a brief sample of its questions, and I want someone to tell me which question serves the constitutional function of apportioning the number of seats in the U.S. House of Representatives: Does this house, apartment, or mobile home have hot and cold running water, a flush toilet, a bathtub or shower, a sink with a faucet, a refrigerator, a stove? Last month, what was the cost of electricity for this house, apartment, or mobile home? How many times has this person been married?


After each question, the Bureau of the Census provides a statement of how the answer meets a federal need. I would prefer that they provide a statement of how answers to the questions meet the constitutional need as expressed in Article I, Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution.


The Census Bureau also asks questions about race, and I want to know what does my race have to do with apportioning the U.S. House of Representatives? If I'm asked about race, I might respond the way I did when filling out a military form upon landing in Inchon, Korea in 1960; I checked off Caucasian. The warrant officer who was checking forms told me that I made a mistake and should have checked off "Negro." I told him that people have the right to self-identify themselves and I'm Caucasian. The warrant officer, trying to cajole me, asked why I would check off Caucasian instead of Negro. I told him that checking off Negro would mean getting the worse job over here. I'm sure the officer changed it after I left.


Americans need to stand up to Washington's intrusion into our private lives. What business of government is the number of times a citizen has been married or what he paid for electricity last month? For those who find such intrusion acceptable, I'd ask them whether they'd also find questions of their sex lives or their marriage fidelity equally acceptable.

What to do? Unless a census taker can show me a constitutional requirement, the only information I plan to give are the number and names of the people in my household. The census taker might say, "It's the law." Thomas Jefferson said, "Whensoever the General Government (Washington) assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force."


Walter E. Williams is a professor of economics at George Mason University.

All they are getting from me is a number.
Screw the bastards.

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Fraudster the Smowman

Not at all creative enough to construct such a song.

I found the song Fraudster the Snowman that was published in early December before the last Christmas.
Written by F.R. Duplantier and posted to Politickles.com.

Fraudster the Snowman

Was an enterprising pol,

With a trust-fund life

And an upturned nose

And a heart made out of coal.

Fraudster the Snowman

Was a senator, they say.

He was made of snow,

But the voters know

How he came to life one day.

There must have been some magic in

Those tight blue jeans they found,

For when they placed them on his legs

He began to dance around.

O, Fraudster the Snowman

Found a way to live for free.

While the people pay,

He could laugh and play

And drive around in an SUV.

Huffedy humbug,

Huffedy humbug,

Look at Fraudster go.

Huffedy humbug,

Huffedy humbug,

O the bilge of snow!

Fraudster the Snowman

Knew the sun was hot some days,

So he said, “I’ll hoax

All the stupid folks

And get myself a big pay raise.”

Down to the village,

With a hockey stick in hand

And some bogus graphs

And some doctored stats,

Showing crisis for the land.

He led them to his Waterloo,

Where the facts came out at last,

But he never once admitted that

He was just plain full of crap.

For Fraudster the Snowman

Liked to always have his way,

So he waved goodbye

Saying, “Don’t deny,

I’ll be back again some day.”

Huffedy humbug,

Huffedy humbug,

Look at Fraudster go.

Huffedy humbug,

Huffedy humbug,

O the bilge of snow!

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Was Top Gun Gay?

Brother Scott sent this to me a couple of days ago.
As soon as I saw it I remembered seeing the movie.
Quinten Tarantino in all of his insightful glory.



Swordfight, swordfight!
I think the name of the movie was Sleep with Me.

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