So Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner’s “How to Save the Banks” plan, which was supposed to be ready in mid-February, will now be released — they promise — in mid-April. Well? It took him five years to pay his taxes. What did you expect?
Someone else probably already figured this out but I just got it. The carbon cap and trade system has nothing to do with global warming. It’s another vehicle for transferring wealth from the evil business class to the downtrodden masses. That’s why Comrade Jugears wants to take the money made by the system and “give it back” to “taxpayers.” Well, actually to people who don’t pay taxes, but it sounds better this way. By “back to the taxpayers” he means “into the federal coffers,” where it will be added to the higher taxes collected from the wealthy and given to non-taxpayers. But this way, Jugears gets to look all green and stuff.
An elected, sitting Dutch politician named Geert Wilders was recently invited by the House of Lords in England to show his anti-Islamic-terror film called Fitna, and to answer questions and discuss the film with the House. One Lord, a muslim appointed by Tony Blair who has confessed himself “an Islamist,” protested and threatened to bring thousands of muslims to the House of Lords to wreak havoc if Wilders showed. At first the House backed down, but under public pressure reinstated its invitation to Wilders. Today, Wilders flew to England to show the film and was turned back as persona non grata at the airport under Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s secretary of state’s order, based on a “finding” that Wilders posed a threat to the security of Britain. This is the first time an EU country has ever refused entry to a sitting official from another EU country.
What threat does Wilders pose to the peace and security of Britain? The film itself simply contraposes verses from the Koran with film of terrorist acts performed by muslims and statements from muslim preachers. If the film makes no sense because the verses do not match the actions, who would be bothered (but in fact the film makes too much sense)? And Wilders himself is not a threatening man. So where does the threat come from?
The threat, obviously, comes from muslims in Britain who do not like the message in the film (or worse, perhaps, are just fine with the message but don’t like the fact that it’s being publicly exposed) and think they can bully the great nation of Britain into willful blindness. This is known as “the heckler’s veto.” It is anathema to free speech, and it is a truly sad day to see Britain fall victim to it. I hope public outcry in England reverses this travesty.
So Obama’s cabinet keeps getting smaller as his appointments check their tax records (“Oh, hey, look at the time!”), and now Republican Senator Judd Gregg backs out of commerce — a post already abandoned once when Governor Richardson was caught with his hand in the pay-for-play cookie jar — because Gregg couldn’t stomach Comrade Obama’s trillion dollar Slushulus Package. And The Messiah has only been in office three weeks. If the fate of America weren’t at stake, this would be funny.
Congressional Democrats promised a bipatrisan bill and a 48-hour public review period for any stimulus bill, then wrote it in a closet and still (9 p.m. Central Time, Thursday February 12) have not disseminated the full bill even to Congress, much less posted it online for public review, and they want it voted on tomorrow, February 13.
So I’m wondering. Is this massive incompetence, chutzpah, hubris, stupidity, or what?
Obama has now appointed not one but TWO tax cheats to his cabinet, as well as two lobbyists who lobbied for the industries they will oversee, despite signing an executive order saying lobbyists are not allowed in his administration. If Obama wants to raise the taxes YOU pay to pay for his bloated government, couldn’t he at least appoint people who pay their own taxes? No, the lesson is this: you are a peon who will do what you are told. Those in government are your rulers (not “public servants”), and above the laws you have to obey.
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/01/more-daschle-ta.html
Scots, wha hae wi’ Wallace bled,
Scots, wham Bruce has aften led,
Welcome tae your gory bed,
Or tae Victorie!
‘Now’s the day, and now’s the hour:
See the front o’ battle lour,
See approach proud Edward’s power –
Chains and Slaverie!
‘Wha will be a traitor knave?
Wha will fill a coward’s grave?
Wha sae base as be a slave?
Let him turn and flee!
‘Wha, for Scotland’s king and law,
Freedom’s sword will strongly draw,
Freeman stand, or Freeman fa’,
Let him on wi’ me!
‘By Oppression’s woes and pains!
By your sons in servile chains!
We will drain our dearest veins,
But they shall be free!
‘Lay the proud usurpers low!
Tyrants fall in every foe!
Liberty’s in every blow! –
Let us do or dee!
Robert Burns — Not a modern poet
“that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights,”
Okay, so something is true regardless whether it is popularly believed, whether the government approves of it, etc. etc., because that is how the world is. And we can find out what some of those true things are just by looking around.
So, after looking around, what did America’s Founders find out? That people are “equal,” that there is a Creator God, and that there are “rights” that all people have not because a government gives them or because a particular person takes them from others, but because that Creator God “endows” each person with them.
First, this document describes a particular kind of universe with a particular place and role for human beings. I think that’s obvious so I’m not going to waste any more time on it. But you should listen carefully to political leaders today for whether or not the kind of universe they describe is the same one the Founders described.
Oh hell .. anyone else getting bored with this? Me too. Long and short: Conservatism is a revolutionary ideology. It’s not the revolution of the “proletariat” which will always end up strengthening an elite and the State at the expense of individuals. It is the revolution of individualism, i.e., Everyman, at the expense of the State and the “elite.” That’s the whole point. Go forth and dissent.
What passes for poetry today is really just bad prose. Seriously. Read some.
