Those laws congress passes…didn’t mean congress had to follow the laws.
Schumer Calls Flight Attendant “B-word”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5mKqYBK_K4
Tag: government
DN! Indian Environmentalist Sunita Narain on U.S. Climate Policy
Climate change debate aside, I have to question if the plan for how to fix global warming is realistic.
World leaders develop plan to change human behavior to use less fossil fuels. (Good luck with that “modifying human behavior” thing.)
World leaders all agree on same plan. (Chuckle…they are doing well when they agree to meet at the same place and time.)
All or most humans follow the plan. (Like that other time the planet followed the same plan?)
So what’s plan B?
Intervention or Revolution?
There has been a lot of talk about a second US revolution. I’d like to call for an intervention instead.
Planning the US Intervention
- Call an addiction treatment professional.
- Make a list of all the key people involved. There are around 300 million people, so this part could take a while.
- Meet with the addiction treatment professional to discuss the situation. Decade-long addiction to reckless spending and wars and stealing from the bank account to fund the addiction.
- Make a list of the difficulties in seeking help. Mostly apathy and cynicism.
- Plan the actual intervention, rehearsing what each person in the group will say to the addict. “Please stop spending money we don’t have; we are broke and you are killing us.”
- Schedule the actual intervention at a time when the addicted person will be available and hopefully sober. We can get a lot of people together…but the sober part just ain’t gonna happen.
- Confront the addict in a loving but honest manner, letting him know that the addiction is effecting more than just them. “You are making us poor and future generations poor. If you care about us at all, please just stop.” (Burst into uncontrollable tears.)
Sometimes interventions backfire….so everyone come armed just in case.
Bernanke is World’s Greatest Counterfeiter
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRZ-B14PEsc
MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough said that Paul had admitted off camera that Bernanke deserved the award because of his economic power. Paul replied “He is. He is the most powerful man in the world. I believe a case can be made for that…He controls the supply of money, which is the reserve currency of the world.”
The Texas congressman added, “He could create a trillion dollars in secret without any monitoring of the Congress…I think he’s more powerful than the president.”
A Second Civil War in America this Winter?
Interesting point in the video; if its possible to have a revolution in the US. If one percent of the population of the US (3 million people) were to join together they would be a larger force than all the branches of the military combined.
They are calling for a revolution over at the Democratic Underground and Free Republic.
If the left and the right fight a civil war…my bet is the right will win because they’ll have more firepower.
Bill Ayers on RussiaToday
Covers a lot of topics in 12 minutes. Mostly about building an antiwar movement.
Interesting view of how the left and right view Obama. Starts at 2:28 in video.
“One of the things that is misunderstood I think about President Obama is, he said all during the campaign. ‘I am a moderate, pragmatic, compromising politician.’ And people on the right refuse to believe that to this day. They insist he is a secret Muslim, a secret Socialist, a secret terrorist of some kind. People on the left also distrust that statement and think secretly he is winking at them and that he has an agenda that’s to the left.”
Bible Reading Removed From Town’s Holiday Celebrations
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shffazUTNEo
The PC rules seem to say its OK to voice a belief on public property as long as that belief isn’t backed by a religious organization.
If a religious view is being voiced on public property there is the risk of a lawsuit.
Why has the separation of church and state has turned into denial of the existence of religion?
Separation of church and state was never meant to be a black marker to strike out beliefs we don’t agree with.
This case isn’t forcing religion on others any more that holding an environmental meeting and quoting Al Gore is forcing Gaia worship.
Petition from 100,000 People: End the War Now
It took about a thousand Special Forces troops to overthrow the Taliban in 2001. Why do we need a hundred times that number now to keep them out?