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They’re at it again! In order to throw money to the unions that support them, the Democrats have pushed through another in a long list of spending bills. This one is directly aimed at both the teacher’s unions and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU)

This new spending bill - to the tune of 26 billion dollars - is supposedly to help those poor states that will have to lay off teachers, firefighters, and policemen if they aren’t bailed out by the taxpayers in other, more conservative, states. Baloney!

Those states have allowed the unions to seize control of them and are now paying the price for the unsustainable pensions and benefits they have promised. They should be, that is, but nope, the Dems are bailing them out, with your money.

It’s amazing, though, that the very states claiming poverty are able to budget hundreds of millions for such things as opera houses, sports facilities, the study of various species, and the arts, just to name a few.

They never give a thought to allowing the sports teams to pay for facilities, or opera patrons to fund new and improved opera houses. No, these are far too important, they say. Instead, let’s lay off a few hundred police, or a few thousand teachers.

That’s the plan - make it all about the teachers and firefighters. By doing so, ignoring the fact of wasted millions that could be cut from the budget, they allow the Democrats in Congress to come off as saviors of the public servants, and to pick up more support from the unions.

Not only do they get to appear saviors, they do it while appearing to beat up on those evil fat cat corporations by eliminating tax breaks. The bill will also cut off, in 2014, an extension of food stamp benefits. Of course they hope employment has recovered by then, or they will have to extend the benefits again.

Amazingly, all of this spending will lower the deficit – again! If they can continue to lower the deficit by wild spending, there should be no deficit within a few years.

Rest assured, this is not about teachers, firefighters, or police; this is about power. Where do they get the right to take money from states that have struggled to balance their budgets, and from their taxpayers, and give that money to states that have had no desire to do the right thing? They simply ignore the howls of protest from conservatives and do as they please.

This bailout is about the power of the unions to give money to the Democrats, and the power to garner votes. Votes keep the spenders in office, which again gives them more power to throw more money back to their supporters. It’s a vicious cycle that needs to be broken.

How can it be broken? Conservative voters coming out in droves in November and electing true Republican conservatives can break the cycle. Voters demanding their elected representatives actually represent them and their values can break it.

Not only do people need to vote, but they also need to be vocal in their support. Conservatives need to swamp their local newspapers with letters of bitter complaint about the massive debt being piled up by Democrats in the name of ‘change’.

They need to actively campaign for the candidate of their choice, and make sure everyone knows why they want Republicans back in the Congress. The only way to stop the bleeding is to stop the bitter cycle of favor for favor. Be heard, be active, and vote.

Yeah, I know its a shocker to those of you who think that all right wingers follow lock step with the likes of Beck, Hannity, Rush, and Fox news. So let me set the record straight

Contrary to popular belief not all conservatives drink the kool aid.

So here’s a wrap up what I think of Beck at the moment:

Why do I hate Beck?

It’s not that I hate him, I just get exhausted listening to him rail about the same things for the past two years. He’s right on a lot of issues, but on others…not so much.

Do I listen to Glenn Beck?

Rarely, especially since his friend has been added to the radio show, I find it annoying to have three people or more talking at once on the radio. Its usually Glenn giving an opinion, Pat making some stupid imitation, and Stu agreeing with Beck. I used to listen everyday, but I just can’t hack it anymore.

Why don’t you watch his show?

I get home about 7 pm every night, besides, the crying on demand by a grown man is getting really old.

What else annoys you about Beck?

The constant marketing of himself, yes I get it you have to make money, but come on:

• Books
• Shows
• Radio
• TV
• Online Store
• Online Subscription -Insiders program
• Magazines
• DVD’s

If you could tell Glenn Beck and his listeners something what would it?

First, stop crying. Next, we are not going to be like Zimbabwe or Pre-WW2 Germany and walk around with barrels of money because of hyper inflation. Another thing, stop telling people to buy gold, it is at a ridiculously high price and that bubble will burst when the economy recovers. We will not collapse into a Mad Max like society.

Oh, one more thing, just because you have a radio and tv show and are able to speak to millions doesn’t mean that because you say something or have an idea that you were the first one to have come up with it. So stop reporting stuff you think is revolutionary thinking, which most people with common sense have already come up with on their own.

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The global economic crisis has fostered criticism of the capitalist system around the world. Capitalism is blamed for the financial status of the United States, in which dozens of banks and lending institutions have gone bankrupt, securities have plummeted and the levels of consumption and savings of Americans have suffered a severe reduction.

The collapse of Lehman Brothers, mortgage firm Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and the investment insurer AIG, coupled with some prominent financial corruption, sealed the perception of its critics: capitalism is exhausted, outdated, and dead. Yet, if we resort to theory and history, we would realize that blaming the current crisis on capitalism is not only shallow and inaccurate, but also drastic and rhetorical. What critics of capitalism seem to be inadvertently attacking is the laissez-faire model, not the whole model. Capitalism is defined as the economic system in which individuals and private companies carry out the production and the exchange of goods and services. One of its essential characteristics is that production, distribution, and prices of goods and services are determined by some form of free-market, with little government intervention. It is important to notice that the definition does not imply that government is totally excluded.
Laissez-faire, on the other hand, is an interpretation of capitalism, converted into a school of thought by French economists of the 18th century, and referred to by Adam Smith, who advocated the abolition of restrictions on trade and industry by the government. Laissez-faire was taken to extremes in the United States in the 19th century when the giant corporations and powerful monopolies were intoxicated with pure capitalism, or savage capitalism, as Pope John Paul II would put it a century later. Such excesses brought about the intervention of government through the adoption of several articulated anti-trust laws. These enactments promoted the right to compete and the overall improvement of working conditions.

And that is what apparently happened in the United States: a return to the capitalist variant of laissez-faire, innocuously triggered by the trickle-down economics of the Ronald Reagan era, and stretched to the extremes we regret today. It is not capitalism’s fault that U.S. banks issued massive high-risk mortgages as if they were candy, and it is certainly not its fault that those same banks irresponsibly converted the mortgages in securities to be offered worldwide. It was not the fault of capitalism that Wall Street profiteers like Bernie Madoff ripped off thousands of unsuspecting investors for a total of 50,000 million dollars; or that unscrupulous executives were being awarded bonuses while their company flirted with bankruptcy and their accounts were fraudulently inflated.

The blame lies with governments that have managed the system poorly, pandering abuses, without monitoring, regulating, or intervening. If something went wrong were the laziness and the shortsightedness with which public entities acted. If something was aloof was the historical reference to the American spirit, politically represented by the discussions between Hamilton and Jefferson, the balance of power, and the pursuit of social welfare.

If capitalism, as an economic system were obsolete, countries like Finland would not show off one of the most competitive economies in the world, alongside an enviable welfare state. If capitalism were exhausted, small nations like Singapore would not have overcome underdevelopment, while being led by governments that promote the market systemically, regulating it, and partially rewarding it for the benefit of all. If capitalism were finished, the GDP of countries like Holland would not be made up by 80% of the service and trade sector, which finances its educational system, the number nine in the world. If capitalism were outdated, mainland China would not have embraced it as its economic system, while simultaneously adopting communism as its political credo.

In essence, laissez-faire, and not capitalism, should be the scapegoat for the current crisis undergone by the entire planet today. When the financial sector, led by visionary governments finds the right balance between control and stimulus, crisis will be more easily avoided, and societies will prosper faster.

The media loves to tell us how to live our lives. Don’t eat this, don’t eat that. Do this do that. The list goes on and on. However, when we actually listen to some of their news reports it seems that more often than not the experts are wrong.

According to wikipedia an expert is defined as

someone widely recognized as a reliable source of technique or skill whose faculty for judging or deciding rightly, justly, or wisely is accorded authority and status by their peers or the public in a specific well-distinguished domain. An expert, more generally, is a person with extensive knowledge or ability based on research, experience, or occupation and in a particular area of study

Let’s see how many times experts were in some way wrong, mislead, suprised, and stunned. By doing a search online we can get a rough estimate of how many times statements have been reported on to this effect.

The term “experts were surprised” Found 75,400 times in Google.
The term “experts were not expecting” Found 86,900 times in Google.
The term “experts were stunned” Found 112,000 times in Google.
The term “experts were wrong” Found 115,00 times in Google.

Think about this next time the scaremongering media reports on something. Experts, scientists, and the like are not objective in their pursuits as we have been lead to believe. Many will lie, cheat, and steal for funding or to promote an agenda. Just look at the global warming hoax that has finally been exposed.

What may be reported as news today, may be reported later as “oops look that’s not actually true, but we had to say this at the time.” Think about job numbers and GDP estimates that are constantly being revised, many times these initial reports are “off” or “understated” at a later point.

As most of you know I’m a big fan of talk radio. It used to be that I would listen all day, everyday.  My schedule went something like this: From 9am-12pm Glenn Beck, from 12pm -3pm I would listen to Rush Limbaugh, from 3pm-6pm I would listen to Todd Schnitt and then at night to Phil Hendrie.

Obviously, I wouldn’t sit there and actively listen, but more or less have it in the back ground while I was working or driving. Something cool that came in an email the other day to me was this site which offers a talk radio toolbar. With it, now you can listen to your favorite shows while you are surfing the web.

With it, you also get the convenience of having a Google search feature, facebook access, and many other features. It is Truste.org certified, therefore you know it doesn’t install adware or spyware on your computer.

If you are worried about having another toolbar taking up your screen space, the solution is easy. When you are not using it, you can hide it. In internet explorer as well as in firefox, you can simply right click near your address bar and check or uncheck any toolbar you want to hide or activate.

One thing that troubles me about conservative personalities on tv and radio is that not a single one of them has come out and mentioned the fact that Michael Savage is banned from entering Britain. His name has been put alongside those of murderers and terrorist and for some reason the bureaucracy over there can’t figure out how to take his name off the list.

Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, and others have mentioned nothing. Shame on them.

Don’t get me wrong, I still listen whenever I can to most of these guys…well except Sean Hannity, I find he has no talent and an annoying voice for radio.

Even the laughington post made mention of this last year.

Liberal talk show, NPR mentioned this.

Liberal newspaper LA times Mentioned this.

Yet conservatives here have been silent? Well, if I’m not mistaken, I think Bill Oreilly mentioned this in one of his segments last year, but I would hardly call Oreilly a conservative.

At first glance, it may seem that at best Obama is your run of the mill socialist, at worst a commie. However, after watching him non-perform in office for over a year, there is something that at least for me doesn’t quite settle well with just labeling him one of the default lefty ism’s. Obumunism.com has done a pretty good job of depicting  the leftist-commie version of Obama. But I feel that Obomunism is much more than simple leftist ideology.

First, Obama has not sought outright state control of every business-at least not yet. In fact, what he has done so far is more in line with fascist-type governments, where the government tells you how to run your business.While I’m sure that he and his band of gangsters would love nothing more than to strip us of our ability to create wealth, it has not come to fruition in the classical communist sense.

If we look at traditionally communist and fascist regimes, they are imperialistic and nationalist. Obama is neither, save one exception, Afghanistan -at least what liberals might construe as imperialist. And the reason I think he didn’t want to rock the boat with Afghanistan is that doing so would derail his healthscare agenda.

So, if he isn’t an outright Marxist or an outright fascist, then what is he? Well, he’s an Obomunist. The distinction being that Obama hates America.

Past Marxist and fascist regimes elevated their countries above all others and didn’t apologize for it. Obama spent most of his first year traveling around the world asking for forgiveness and bowing to everyone.

Past Marxist and fascist regimes tried to hang on to power as long as possible. I have no doubt, he would love to rule America as long as he can, but we still have a constitution that impedes him from serving more than eight years.

And finally, past Marxist and fascist regimes relied heavily on their police and military to accomplish and enforce their domestic agenda. Obama hates the police and the military, but has relied instead on college professors, union thugs, community agitators, and other useful idiots to do his bidding.

While I have painted a dreary picture of Obama, I think there is more to this administration than meets the eye. Why would an administration continue to follow an agenda that will clearly spell defeat for himself and his party? An agenda that is clearly detrimental to the country, is it ignorance or is this the new ideology of destruction-Obomunism?

Last night I only slept a few hours, you see I started reading Marcus Luttrel’s book, Lone Survivor, and I couldn’t put it down. The shit this guy went through was amazing. Pardon the expression but it’s there for emphasis because no words could really express what unfolded for these four Navy SEALs on that mountain. His buddies that died that day on the mountain, are not merely men, but titans of unimaginable fortitude.

We’re not just talking about being gung ho and badass which doesn’t even begin to describe these guys, we are talking about being shot in the neck and keep on fighting, we are talking about having half your head blown off and keep on fighting, we are talking about going out in the middle of a clearing to try and get a signal in order to call for some help for your troops, knowing full well you are going to die doing it and keep on fighting.

It was 4 against an estimated 100+. I’m not sure what the kill ratio was, but from what I read in his awesome book, Marcus alone killed about 30 or 40 of these guys.

Finally, Marcus crawled, hopped, walked, ran 7 miles in order to stay alive.

Basically this book should be standard reading for all high school students, so that they may appreciate what honor, courage, and patriotism truly is.

Here are some interviews with him which give a synopsis of what happened, but I guarantee you, you need to read the book to fully appreciate what these four guys went through.

In this video, he retells the story of how some punks went and killed his dog , randomly. It was just sheer bad luck that these morons went and killed this hero’s dog.

Recently, we launched our new site, it grabs the five most recent headlines from 33 of the top conservative news, blogs, and forums.

If you are like me and spend a large amount of time going from site to site, this birds eye view of the conservative blogosphere will surely save you some time.

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For the most part, I’m against most any new laws. Why? If you have to ask that, then you haven’t seen the garbage coming out of Washington the last 20 years. However, I think there is one law that should be added to the books and be federally mandated to include every town, city, and state.

I would forbid any politician to name any new building, road, or any other project in their name. Moreover, I would forbid them from naming any bills or laws in their own name as well.

I think this would curb their enthusiasm for spending more and will also serve to curb their outrageous egos. Does this make sense to anybody else? Honestly, sometimes I get the feeling they just want to see their names plastered everywhere for eternity.

So when can buildings and other things be named in their honor? When they are dead.