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Quick check in...I'm a little 'under the weather' today with the start of a cold... It hit me suddenly (sort of like in this video) Leaving Monday (France) ... Must rest.
Image: Sunshine by janoid
Think good thoughts... Will try to post before I leave...
Great Clouds... VIDEO: BIG SCREEN Planet PeaceView
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GOP common sense healthcare solutions:chicagotribune There are excellent ideas from Conservatives that could expand coverage for the uninsured without cratering the federal budget or curbing the competition and innovation that drive the U.S. health care system... Refused Hearing!
UPDATE: Obama, Reid and Pelosi's 1990 page Blunder to Ram through, which tacks on a millionaire tax, and expansion of Gov-run Medicare, which currently has an unfunded liability of $37 trillion!... REVOLUTION! VIDEO: GOP Rep. denied entrance to Announcement No access for Reps of 51%; & 83% of Nation's Insured.
Video: Will Dems bite the poison apple? "1,990 Pages Of Bureaucracy" Obama Team radical far-left healthcare policies do not appeal to many of the Democrat left.
VIDEO: (R) Rep. LaTourette makes this case in hearing. (Haha)
The party of unintended consequence pays no attention to the World-wide reformations of the globally collapsed model of Socialized Medicine, they are trying to adopt..
I posted the apple, as was once a U.S. symbol: "An apple a day, keeps the Dr. away" Government run health Ins" slated for 2013 will prompt Physician Specialists exit... View Democrat Representative screaming at a constituent for asking tough question on health care... Questions from a Democrat Doctor! View Video: HERE.
Nobody wants to risk their coverage for failed tests like this: We should be looking at the failed Gov. programs we already have, which over time will spread the same failed policy, on a much grander scale...
Liberal's First Universal Child Healthcare Fails: Hawaii is dropping the only State universal child health care program. in the country just seven months after it launched! Why? "People who were already able to afford health care began to stop paying for it so they could get it for free," said Dr. Kenny Fink, the administrator for Med-QUEST at the Department of Human Services. read.
Take a look at Massachusetts... A replica of Obamacare, fails in the State.Read. "Obama Campaigns for Massachusetts Governor amidst privately stocked supporters... Never mentioning the collapsed Obamacare care system model"...
NASA's one-of-a-kind Ares I-X rocket lifted off from Kennedy Space Center's Launch Pad 39B... The rocket performed as expected, with the first stage separating on time and tumbling back to the Atlantic Ocean to be recovered.
Building an Original... Platforms surround the Ares I-X in High Bay 3 of the Vehicle Assembly Building before it was moved to the launch pad on Oct. 20, 2009. NASA: Credit Jack Pfaller Image:[Enlarge]
Closer in height to the hulking Saturn V moon rockets than the space shuttle, Ares I-X looks unlike any rocket that's ever stood at Launch Complex 39. But it blends familiar hardware from existing programs with newly developed components.
Four first-stage, solid-fuel booster segments are derived from the Space Shuttle Program...Read more
Earlier...(Post Updated) Not sure if the weather will permit the target test-launch window this morning... In less than an hour! If not, there may be more breaks in the clouds later in the launch window. If no update, the new rocket test will likely be tomorrow... Cheers
VIDEO: (Alan Watts) Odd & Interesting find...
Image of the Day: NASA -Ares I-X at the Launch Pad-[Enlarge] Image Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
FTS Checks Complete; Tel-4 Locked On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 05:52:13 AM PDT... launchblog
T-4 Minutes and Holding... Wed, 28 Oct 2009 04:36:07 AM PDT
Flight scrubbed yesterday, due to bad weather... NASA's Ares I-X rocket is seen on Launch Pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla.
From: Jon Cowart (deputy mission manager for the Ares I-X flight test) "The flight test is designed to show us whether we are on the right track in building the next system to lift astronauts into space." Read.
From the Ares I-X blog: More than 700 sensors have been placed throughout the vehicle to collect data for use in future exploration missions.
The Ares I-X flight test will provide NASA an early chance to test and prove the new rocket's flight characteristics, hardware, facilities and ground operations. Additionally, the mission will help verify computer and wind tunnel models... NASA Twitter.
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Just discovered Nassim Taleb, who has written and spoken about a subject that many on the far left, simply do not seem to grasp. For the most part, 'converting debt into equity.'
We're seeing risky bank practices rewarded, and subsidized by tax-payers... And while solutions remain in Dem's hands, tax-payers continue to face more exploitation... As more & more debt bureaucracy emerges.
View: Nassim Taleb in conversation w/ David Cameron(22 min) Video from Aug (09) ...Excellent points.HERE.
In an article at trueslant: Nancy Miller says, "We need the bulwark of capitalism restored. We need to know that a bank can fail and the system will barely hiccup." Read. -Dr. "H" is shocked about the extent of Democrat's Multi-Tax.
Someone didn't study their history... 'Rich' New Yorkers Fleeing at Alarming Rate:read.
Nassim Taleb, eight months ago...
Back then, Nassim Taleb had suggested compartmentalization of institutions; but now, as tax-payers assume risky bank's debt-burden; Democrat's "too big to fail" is crushing small banks. The far left is not the group to nationalize. (There's vanishing public trust.)
UPDATE: Uh-oh... Now it's "Death Panels for Big Banks... Read.
ANOTHER VIDEO (link) Nassim Taleb with renowned Psychologist Daniel Kahneman (Starts slow, but worth the 55 min) 9 mo. ago... B.O. sued banks to force them to make risky loans; perhaps (end of video) explains why he is so knowledgeable in creative financing and loan marketing pkgs... Nassim Taleb (a while back) refused to lecture at [CRA], unless they discontinued teaching these damaging Marketing techniques...
But, as the far-left also refused Conservative's incentive recovery; where's their profit and loss statement for converting Capitalist to Socialist economy?
Freedom of the markets (not propped failure) remains the most congruent way at which toxic assets are purged, and the only logical way that balance can be restored... And, as Mr. Taleb insists, private citizens should not be exposed to bank sector risk...
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Our troops remain the best of our Nation... With dedication & honor, they continue to protect, defend, & contribute to a better world... Thank you. Michael Yon Photo Essay: Pedros: The Pararescue medics
"The brave have always defined what the rest of us wish to be."
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Aftermath of the Tarp: READ. A plan to divest the financial institutions of their toxic assets; became an unregulated, and now unrecoverable loss for tax-payers.
[Image Enlarge] (1) Flow of bailout infusion (2) Red & Blue State Governors
Governors adjust fiscal policy & budgets: (Examine details) State by state Policy Index: [PDF]
Editorial: Uncovering the bull under the bailout. "President Obama announced a new TARP-like program for small businesses and community banks. The madness in Washington won't stop until the people completely clean house at both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue." READ.
Burdened by Lawyers, Unions, Bankers, & Organizers... While FED policy meddles in a "one size fits all" which overrides collective bargaining contracts (individual from state to state.) We are seeing Red State (R) Governors fight Blue State (D) policy, often without ability to reduce massive junk and Social policy...
California (D) Treasurer Lockyer... Calls out the Democrat Legislature!
Ed Morrissey: "However, even if Bill Lockyer can’t see any way out, I see one: stop electing Democrats to the Legislature. If the state GOP doesn’t have this clip in ads by the end of next week, maybe California needs better GOP leadership, too."
* Democrats locked-in with UNIONS, and can't save the State * Dems sue Conservatives when they trim Social programs...
Compare with: Interactive un-employment map (Sept) at:NPR From aceHQ: "Those bright enough to recognize the connection between "progressive" governance and Democratic anti-prosperity policies have already fled the state or been driven out by the lack of opportunity."
I suggest term limits, campaign limits... And end FEDERAL Government CAPS on prosperity... Especially during negative surplus!
[History: 2004- Jan 1, 09] Interactive unemployment map during Bush's terms, unemployment was pretty steady, except for the 3rd Qtr, 2005 (Katrina). Today: US Government has grown 35% bigger in the last 10 months (Jan to Sept 2009)
FERMI- First Year Celebration (former GAST) VIDEO:View.
WASHINGTON -- NASA will hold a news briefing, 2 p.m. EDT on Thursday, Oct. 29, to discuss the first-year science results from the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. The briefing is to be held in the James E. Webb Memorial Auditorium at NASA Headquarters: Read more. (Video 1 year ago)
FERMI studying the highest-energy form of light: 'The gamma ray'... Findings discussed will include measurements relevant to the search for new theories of gravity...
The panelists: - Jon Morse, director, Astrophysics Division, NASA Headquarters - Julie McEnery, Fermi project scientist, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. - Peter Michelson, Fermi Large Area Telescope principal investigator, Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif. - Robert Kirshner, professor of astronomy, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass. - Mario Livio, astrophysicist, Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore
For more information about NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, visit: nasa.gov/fermi
Healthcare overhaul: Will US Congress choice be Anabolic or Catabolic?
Fair analogy, as the overhaul objective is to lower premium and medical costs, provide affordable coverage, and reform Medicare... And this can be done in a very anabolic way, simply through environment of state's competition amidst 78% private Insured. This would spark reformation on all levels thus engaging not only higher standards, but a range of plans by entities, with a great deal of experience in offering a larger scope of coverage...
This plan is really the only choice, as leaves Ins Co "Tax-base" still supplying the US Gov, and Hospitals still able to receive foreign paid health services... And avoids mass Insurance Co. layoffs in the private sector...
Increased surplus funds available from increased private sector... would be the correction for "Medicare".. But this would be contingent upon a fiscally responsible Government, ready to trim spending and cease to replicate unsustainable policy... NOTE: It's becoming obvious that we have yet to elect this, in 2010!
Today's Links... Allan Meltzer in today's WSJ: "History gives many examples of countries with high actual and expected money growth, unsustainable budget deficits, and a currency expected to depreciate. Unless these countries made massive policy changes, they ended in crisis... We will escape only if we act forcefully and soon."READ
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FOX NEWS, a twelve year active member of the White House Pool, was to interview the Obama Pay Tsar; in a consortium of five Major TV news organizations, including CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS... VIDEO at aceHQ.
After Obama Administration tried to exclude FOX, Washington bureau Network chiefs met, and announced none of them would participate if Fox were excluded... newsbusters.
A display of solidarity for the most basic Freedom afforded in our Constitution. Harsh criticism for this Administration is in order, but most are in disbelief.
What is happening in America today, shows what can happen when a Nation's standards of Freedom of the Press, is compromised, as Societies rely heavily upon the checks and balances that only a free assimilation of information can provide.
We see streams of Journalists from all parts of the globe who took the to the task, to give the people a voice.... And wherever there is an absence of freedom, Journalists become the life-line through thoural reporting.
Today's Links... Remembering... VIDEO: Maria Grazia Cutuli, il prezzo della verità VIEW Three years of research, dozens of interviews and a thorough investigative work... Remembering Maria Grazia Cutuli...
UPDATE: Pay Czar's Move to Cut Salaries Raises Questions About Limits of Authority Looks like the administration needs a Media that will look the other way, and stop asking questions... Looks like the US could use a leader that is not trying to slay our Financial Sector. Read.
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From Etienne de la Boétie Author of Discours de la servitude volontaire: Image: pensamentoclandestino
"Be resolved to serve no more, and you're free. I do not want you to push or shake, but support him no more, and you will see, like a great colossus that was stolen base, its weight even melt down and break."
Tyrants parade like "workers of magic."(videos new window) "Tyrants create a power structure, consisting of a multi-layered hierarchy, staffed by a conspiracy of accomplices. Accomplices receive their positions as a favor from the tyrant."
"The worst dregs of society gather around the tyrant - they are people of weak character who trade servility for unearned wealth." ~Etienne de la Boétie, in France, circa 1550
Here's a few synchronicities: 1912 climate changes, panic induced financial crisis, bill introduced to broaden and stabilize the markets, bank panic consumed the public... Unspeakable "Organized" strife.
Today there's C/C tax, an Internationally designed level-out of private sector, regulations to seek uniformity, bankruptcy, Int'l Banker-induced "too big to fail" enlargements of big banks, small banks collapse...
All await the timing, encouraged to merge soon, by a select group… Watch out for those prepared to oppressively turn the clock back... We forbid this Int'l change. Every action & eye is watchful.
Physicist Dr. H, last week wrote a formula to solve the financial “crisis”. Not surprisingly, the consolidation was not the earners and businesses, the consolidation was Bank control... Those in the early 1900's lost their lives, or were enslaved, and they are our example... Be swindled NO MORE! TRIP THE SYSTEM AND PLEASE VOTE THESE PEOPLE OUT!!!
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A conversation with Obama's chief advisor, Austan Goolsbee; and discussion about the Federal Reserve. A Must View! This explains the post-election flight of major companies from the U.S...Today, ordinary American business is destroyed by "Too big to fail"... Now they'll bail-out small biz:more.
HINT: Over 600 billion could be saved by shrinking Government; but we've an Administration that only wants to SPEND more...
-Interview with Rose...56:01 - 1 year ago
Goolsbee states that Obama regulations would seek uniformity; rewarding less the companies that can get lobbyists; and McCain would dramatically increase the deficit to: 700 billion dollars!
-And then sites that Bush tax cuts did not work! I guess he missed the FACTS:
FlashBack 2006: Are the Bush Tax Cuts Working? [1.4 million Jobs the Nine Months After August 2003]
Freepers archived this:GDP Growth[Charts at link] "In the third quarter of 2003, GDP grew at a 7.2 percent annual rate. Forecasters are expecting GDP to grow by 4.6 percent in 2004...
The highest in 20 years. 2003 and 2004 economic growth levels surpassed Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates...
What happened 3rd quarter 2003 before GDP grew at 7.2%: May 28, 2003 — Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003 = 108th United States (Republican) Congress—
And the Video's statements about the FED: THE FACTS: At the heart of every boom/bust episode since the founding has been money expansion by the fractional-reserve banking system and since 1913 the Fed. They are the primary cause of these boom/bust cycles. They are also the primary cause for the loss in purchasing power of the dollar (over 95% since the founding of the Fed). Now the administration wishes to give the great villain even greater power to cause continued damage." [Source]
Today's Links... The Myth of the Clinton Surplusread. "For those that want a more detailed explanation of why a claimed $236 billion surplus resulted in the national debt increasing by $18 billion, please read" this follow-up article.
Nothing is free, which is why liberalism fails There's nothing wrong with hope. But there is something wrong with hope to the exclusion of logic, hope in the absence of thought, and hope without common sense.
VIDEO: Regulation vs. Capitalism#(White House report -2 min) The elimination of the "tails and the extremes" of innovation… Read. (aka: Getting rid of the dog because its tail wags.)
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U.S. "post-recession business" certainly appears to be the true rival of the White House... For a Government in need of tax-funds; they sure spend a lot of time making private business into a hostile environment...
WH policy is making business enemies faster than they can pass bills.
Krauthammer critiques the style... Video via Jim Hoft
A President who publicly attacks tax-paying private business firms, is actually invoking his power to dissuade businesses advertisers who may be concerned that it will influence their own business holdings. Not illegal, just unethical.
Alexander to White House: Don't Create 'Enemies List'# Top Senate Conference Chairman Lamar Alexander (Tenn.), who served in the Nixon White House, spoke from the Senate floor Wednesday morning, to offer what he said was a “friendly suggestion” to the White House not to repeat the errors he saw committed by the staff of the disgraced former president. “Based upon that experience and my 40 years since then in and out of public life, I...read more.
If that wasn't enough... The wheels are turning the other way, as FDIC head Sheila Bair warns community banks are struggling to compete against their too-big-to-fail rivals...
"Too big to fail has become worse," she said, "it's become explicit when it was implicit before." Bair contends government guarantees create competitive disparities between large and small banks, because "everybody knows small institutions can fail," making it more expensive for them to raise capital and secure funding. read.
'Do What They’re Told’: Obama Takes Swipe at Republicans During NYC Fundraiser: Read.
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Let's see, Democrats don't want to discuss the solutions that prevent trillions in red ink; and that prevent increased taxes during recession?
And they're refusing tort reform; therefore "lawsuit abuse" will find its way, right along into Obamacare?
Emanuela Corielli, DDS in New York, has the advantage having practiced, and left, Italy's Socialist Health Care System... She explains that it will never work in the U.S.
Obamacare will leave two broken Government systems without reform, after two trillion dollars; while dashing toward the same Socialist programs that the rest of the world has revealed to be seriously broken...
Article 1 Section 7 of the Constitution. The Senate isn’t Constitutionally authorized to propose new taxes. They can amend tax measures that the House has sent over, but they can’t originate a new revenue measure.
Democrats are amending existing House Bills with revenue provisions; and assume that we will not challenge this on 'Constitutional grounds.'
Support for Democrats' Health Care Reform Falls to 42 Percent: Poll Shows
Karl says this: "The US Consumer will go from a negative savings rate to a seriously-positive one. I am predicting 4% in 2009 but it could go as high as 10%. The math on this is simple - the "consumerist legion of more" has run its course and all that's left is debt.
It hurts and bad; expecting the American Consumer to cut off his other arm is just plain dumb. By the way this is a good thing in the longer term for America once the excess debt is forced out and defaulted through the system." ~Denninger
I BLAME EXCESS FEAR... Damaged belief-systems, aid crisis... BIG SCREEN VIDEO:Here's the worst one. (haha)
To this, efforts today are but the need to allow the people freedom to stimulate their own economy; instead of BIG GOVERNMENT... Hopefully OBAMA GOV. will be forced to REDUCE its size!!!!!
Today's Links... Victory against Big Labor: Illinois home health providers reject SEIU/AFSCME power grab! Michelle Malkin.
Obama Mural Defaced – Now Reads: "Yes We Can… Lose Our Freedom" Jim Hoft
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(Image left) PRT staff open school for girls in Behsood Dist. (Nangahar province) 1. 11. 09 -Image: [Enlarge]
Efforts to secure Afghanistan are global, and troops International; as Obama Administration hits a stalled patch, and tries to find blame...
Truth be known, Democrats are about to discover a whole new world of accountability, post U.S. Pres. Inauguration... Rove responds to the White House attacks, with details of the Afghan's many accomplishments...
He let not soldier's sacrifices be over-looked... (Precisely why Americans abandon Obama-media!)
Unfortunately, as truth also be known; between NASA water systems, roads, schools, hospitals, and new Mosques; we fought U.S. Congressional left, in Afghanistan...
Google archives on the net, this blog, or below: Chrenkoff's: "Good news from Afghanistan" (1-14) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14.
WAPO writes of an Afghan woman named Wazhma Frogh. # She writes: "We want to be an example of the success of global commitment to making the world a better and safer place for everyone, from New York to London to Helmand." read.
أفغانستان ينبغي أن توضع من قبل منظمة الأمم المتحدة للبموجب صاحب السمو الملكي خادم الحرمين الشريفين الملك عبد الله في الحجز. المملكة العربية السعودية هي أكبر مساهم ، وسيجلب السلام والاستقرار في هذه المنطقة الإسلامية.
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Saturday's protests against media bias outside the studios of ABC News and CBS News in Chicago, during their live broadcasts... They're a media who took its orders, and...OVER one million, two hundred and fifty thousand [9/12/09] voices, from 52 states, "conveniently" disappeared.
The Media has failed the American people, as they forgo their duty as a free press... "We the people intend this day to act as a "shot across the bow" so to speak as a warning to the ships in the Main Stream Biased Media fleet.
"Return to patrolling the waters of democracy with objectivity, fairness and balance. Act once again as a check on political corruption and tyranny instead of being a party to it. Ignore this "warning shot" to your own peril. If you continue to persist in your complicit behavior with big government and the political establishment, you shall suffer the same fate as the proud Titanic – sunken this time by a colossal iceberg called "WE THE PEOPLE"
Approximately 100 patriots gathered at 4:00pm outside of ABC news studios on State Street in Chicago. We sang God Bless America, The National Anthem and chanted "report the news" "do your jobs" "can you hear us now?" etc...
After about 1/2 hour, we marched on over to CBS News studios. The folks at CBS saw us coming and pulled down the window shades to the studio... LOL, cowards... More chanting commenced.
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The flat tax revolution has been especially strong in former Soviet-bloc nations, a rather ironic development since a so-called progressive income tax was a key tenet of Marx's Communist Manifesto... Now low taxrobust growth. Image:Estonia (Flat tax)
As U.S. Democrats continue their pursuit of the largest tax increases in our Nation's history... They are fully advised NOT to enter into lock-step with foreign contracts, guarded against by Constitutional principals.
Dan at the Center for Freedom and Prosperity discusses the Global Flat Tax Revolution... Must View! (alternative to U.S. Democrat's Tax System.)
America's Right posts: Dan's Latest VIDEO:"Beware of the VAT Tax! VIEW! (Pelosi's way to pay for unfunded liabilities.) ...Vote them all out!
Globally, there are now 24 flat tax jurisdictions (actually 25, but we didn't know about Trinidad & Tobago when the video was filmed), a remarkable development given the ideological opposition to tax reform from special interest groups and class warfare advocates... (Video: 2008)
I believe that as free and Independent States, we will push for this tax reform in the coming month's elections... And this would be the very best jump start for the recovery of our Nation...
Due to the numerous "special interests" that we observed in the bailouts... It is unlikely that Democrats would choose the flat tax route; but I believe that Americans will choose fresh new faces in Senate & House... As polls indicate.
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The Cosmos is full beyond measure of elegant truths... Of exquisite interrelationships... Of the awesome machinery of nature.. ~Sagan (1934-1996) -Image:[Enlarge]
And in this interpretation of light...
A still more glorious dawn awaits... Not a sunrise, but a galaxy rise A morning filled with 400 billion suns...
More Lyrics: The sky calls to us... If we do not destroy ourselves We will one day venture to the stars...
I believe our future depends powerfully On how well we understand this cosmos In which we float like a mote of dust In the morning sky
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Another concept of human liberty, is one by which man's voluntary exchange in the markets organizes activity; and becomes the magic of the price system... It is this freedom that enables people to improve their lives...
Milton Friedman demonstrates a simple lesson... (circa: 1980)
A most miscalculated and predictable outcome of price-fixing is rationing... And is a result of Governments' attempt to deliver "the common good" but (instead) the delivery of strife... (see taxation below)
The free market system is often blamed... But "freedom to choose" remains the only true measure by which creates a pathway for improvement.
The Founders of the United States Republic knew this, and cited that excessive Government-controlled markets, would lead to over-taxation... The framers gave the people 'checks and balances' and enumerated Powers; and warned us of those who would try to reduce them...
I cite (1895) appointed Supreme Court justices of the Honorable Abraham Lincoln, who made a CLEAR distinction, now embedded into history...
Un-constitutionality of a graduated income tax:
"Whenever a distinction is made in the burdens a law imposes, or in the benefits it confers on any citizens by reason of their birth, or wealth, or religion, it is class legislation, and leads inevitably to oppression and abuses, and to general unrest and disturbance in society.
It was hoped and believed that the great amendments to the Constitution which followed the late civil war had rendered such legislation impossible for all future time."
-re: Abraham Lincoln appointed Supreme Court justices; Justice Stephen J. Field, Separate opinion in Pollock v. Farmers' Loan and Trust Company, 157 U.S. 429 (1895)
NOTE: Media propaganda would later align Republican President Lincoln, to a candidate (current President) instead of a Socialist ticket.
As a final note... Partisan divisions are much more useful to Government, than to the people... Should we all agree that our Constitution embodies freedom of choice and equality... Handing over our liberty to government to secure a bit of short-term security, would be an obvious "fool's bargain"... wouldn't it.
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UN Oiling the wheels of inquiry, not found in the Honduran Constitution... As US Congressional findings are ignored; a released UN DPS study becomes opinion.
VIDEO: UPDATE. UPDATE: Confusion over Honduras agreementBBC "I wouldn't talk of an end to the political crisis, but an exit, yes." "Reinstatement after the fact (vote) is something we will not accept."
Wouldn't Honduras have to ratify their Constitution for the UN? This does not seem like a realistic request for any Government.
Earlier news had shown acceptance: lagringasblogicito "Removal of Zelaya was constitutional": UN Read.
I guess UN wouldn't want "opinion" to get in the way of facts... This is just a country with a Constitution of which UN is not on the board... But given their concern for coup d'états... Seeking justice, could make OAS a very lonely group.
After 1823 Honduras joined the newly formed United Provinces of Central America... Among Central American leaders this was followed by harsh partisan strife; bringing the federation's collapse in 1838...
Is it any wonder that they would write a Constitution to protect their Republic from the years of strife which followed... They have little money, but are Rich with Freedom.
It looks like Honduras Constitution is their shining light... For this I understand... Despite those who would see us otherwise; America(s) should be the land of the free. God Bless Our Defenders.
Today's Links... Ros-Lehtinen embarks on second Honduras trip by GOP lawmakers Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman John Kerry (D-Mass.) last week nearly blocked DeMint, along with GOP Reps. Peter Roskam Ill.), Aaron Schock (Ill.), and Doug Lamborn (Colo.), from traveling to Honduras last Friday. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) intervened to approve the trip late Thursday night. Read entire article
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Freedom tends to prosper in Conservative States, and falters in states of liberalism... And as individual liberty is a seamless concept; rigid conceptual division between “economic” and “personal” freedoms is unsupportable.
Basically, the recession is over, and we can't cut through the "fed red-tape" to improve state's economies! And what is the Liberals' answer? MORE FEDERAL RED TAPE! MORE FEDERAL RED POLICY!
Obama's CFPA: The Next Great Leap Backwards for Consumer "Rights"
Reason.tv's Nick Gillespie recently sat down with George Mason University law professor, Volokh Conspiracy blogger, and Mercatus Center scholar Todd Zywicki to get answers.
Just found this from the Freepers.... Of the various facets, some states protect individual liberty more... This index shows that conservative states have generally done better than liberal states: Recent (2009) findings at: statepolicyindex
Point-to-case, liberal states are nanny states, while conservative states are more tolerant... Liberals meddle in a "one size fits all" which overrides collective bargaining contracts (individual from State to state)...
As time progresses, we will examine the after-effects of what has been described as a partisan bailout; to further assess the determinants of policy change in pro- and anti-liberty directions.
CALIFORNIA: A Liberal majority State not only taxes and regulates its economy more than most other states, it also aggressively interferes in the personal lives of its citizens. California ranks #48 on economic freedom and #37 on personal freedom... On scale of (1-50).
Today's Links... Conservative states were opposed to B.O. policy… Obama Dollar Retreats Most Against Commodities in Wealth Shift: Barack’s effort to lead the world economic recovery by spending the U.S. out of its recession is undermining the dollar, triggering record commodities rallies as investors scour the globe for hard assets. read.
Cap and trade imbalance between states has Midwest mad... Emissions credits to bolster state governments... Just coincidentally, most of those are states that go "Democratic" in national elections. read.
With a length of 684 feet, USS N.Y. (LPD-21) is designed to carry up to 800 Marines, with flight deck for multi helicopters and MV-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft.
Two other ships – the Arlington and Somerset – are being built in honor of the victims of the attacks on the Pentagon and United Flight 93 and are also incorporating materials salvaged from those sites. Read.
USS New York Makes Maiden Voyage (New Orleans to New York City) # NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana — A Navy assault ship built with tons of steel salvaged from the World Trade Center towers began its journey to New York on Tuesday, sailing down the Mississippi River... in a pea-soup fog as watchers along the levee strained for a glimpse. Read.
The Times-PicayuneOctober 12, 2009, 5:14PM By Paul Purpura: The preparation...Read.
Happy Birthday Navy!
Today's Links... More from British Conservative paper... Ship built of World Trade Centre wreckage sets sail for New York: Telegraph UK From Ronnie Harris, mayor of nearby Gretna, Louisiana: "The entire country comes together in the form of that bow stem and I'm so proud that this event puts it in the history books and in people's minds."
Where's Barry's MSM? They seem to have missed this story.... Humm... A Little History of the US Navy... Oct. 13, 1775: In Philadelphia, the Continental Congress voted to fit out two sailing vessels, armed with ten carriage guns, as well as swivel guns, and manned by crews of eighty, and to send them out on a cruise of three months to intercept transports carrying munitions and stores to the British army in America...
This was the original legislation out of which the Continental Navy grew and as such constitutes the birth certificate of the navy. Read.
Quick check in...I'm a little 'under the weather' today with the start of a cold... It hit me suddenly (sort of like in this video) 
Video: Will Dems bite the poison apple?
Spectacular Launch: Ares I-X
Platforms surround the Ares I-X in High Bay 3 of the Vehicle Assembly Building before it was moved to the launch pad on Oct. 20, 2009. 
Just discovered Nassim Taleb, who has written and spoken about a subject that many on the far left, simply do not seem to grasp. For the most part, 'converting debt into equity.' 
Aftermath of the Tarp: READ.
(1999-8) Gamma-ray burst imaged- first time! (Details) GCN (Coordinates Network)
JSOnline: Mike O’Keefe compares US flu lines w/ Gov healthcare
From Etienne de la Boétie 
Various experts confirm beyond a doubt, that there will not be a USD collapse; as excess debt is forced out and defaulted through the system.
With less Bank transparency read.
(Image left) PRT staff open school for girls in Behsood Dist. (Nangahar province) 1. 11. 09
The flat tax revolution has been especially strong in former Soviet-bloc nations, a rather ironic development since a so-called progressive income tax was a key tenet of Marx's Communist Manifesto... Now low tax robust growth.
The Cosmos is full beyond measure of elegant truths... Of exquisite interrelationships... Of the awesome machinery of nature.. ~ Sagan (1934-1996)
UN Oiling the wheels of inquiry, not found in the Honduran Constitution... As US Congressional findings are ignored; a released UN DPS study becomes opinion.
Faustasblog has more: 
At ussnewyork.com site.
