QUESTION EVOLUTION -- WHY NOT?

http://patriotupdate.com/articles/question-evolution-campaign-heats-up-the-creation-vs-evolution-culture-war


WWW.CREATION.COM


8/25/2011
There are 15 Questions the evolutionists cannot satisfactorily answer--click to the PDF file.
http://creation.com/images/pdfs/flyers/15-questions-for-evolutionists-s.pdf 


Life
DNA
Mutations
Design
Natural Selection
Multi-Cellular Life
Sex
Where are transitional fossils?
How?
How?
Why?
Where are scientific breakthroughs due to evotution?
Why is evolution, a theory about history, taught as if it is the same as operational science?
Why is evolution, a religious belief, taught in science class?

READER COMMENT:  It takes a lot more “faith” to believe in evolution than it takes to believe that “God created”. Darwin himself said it was a theory, not a fact.
READER COMMENT: 
My question is, if we came from the sea and developed into men, women, animals etc. where did that first cell or cells come from that could so perfectly develop into eyes to see, ears to hear, lungs to breathe, stomach to digest food, etc.?? There has to be a superior being there to make such a cell or cells. And also, if we developed from the ape, why is there no half ape/half men here for us to see? Just a few thoughts!!! Evolution is another way to sidetrack our minds away from the CREATOR!!

READER COMMENT:
I don’t have ENOUGH faith to believe random chance created life as we know it, then STOPPED to the extent we don’t REGULARLY observe indisputable evidence of evolution.
To believe in a creator, I must accept ONE unproven premise(the existence of God). To Believe there is NOT a creator, I must believe so many unprovable premises that I don’t even know how to express the number.

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BARACK OBAMA'S RULES FOR REVOLUTION -- -- THE ALINSKY MODEL

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/Rules%20for%20Revolution%20%282%29.pdf

56-page PDF file by David Horowitz, Freedom Center

Easy and quick read

Other websites mentioned at the end:
DiscoverTheNetworks.org (a guide to the political left)
NewsRealBlog.com
FrontPageMag.com

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GDP IS A LIE -- USE GPP TO MEASURE ECONOMIC GROWTH

Money Morning -- Martin Hutchinson -- 8/23/2011

http://moneymorning.com/2011/08/23/gdp-lie-time-for-new-measure-of-economic-growth/

GDP increases any time the government spends money. It doesn't matter if that money is actually put to productive use or not - GDP rises nonetheless.

It's obvious why big-government Keynesians would like this calculation: It substantiates their claim that government spending stimulates economic growth.
In the real world, however, this makes no sense. Indeed, none of the examples above actually add to economic welfare.

So how can you get an accurate measure of economic growth?

Arithmetically, there's a simple solution: You take Line 1, "Gross Domestic Product," in the Bureau of Economic Analysis' GDP Table and subtract from it Line 21, "Government Consumption Expenditures and Gross Investment."

That gives you a net number, which we can call "gross private product," or GPP. It's a measure of all the output produced by the private sector. In general, it will underestimate national "welfare" unless government is really bad. But it will give you a much better idea of the output the market economy is producing.

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FED AWARDS BANKS $1.2 TRILLION TO FAIL

Godfather Politics – 8/22/2011 – Bojidar Marinov

http://godfatherpolitics.com/647/for-their-failures-the-fed-has-awarded-the-banks-with-1-2-trillion/

That’s when the Federal Reserve steps in and makes new money – out of thin air – and loans it to the banks. The banks are now “solvent.” The also own the houses. Business as usual; the banks win.

Except that there are $1.2 trillion in the economy that were created out of thin air. Which means inflation. Which means everyone suffers – from the subprime homeowners evicted from their houses, to those who never took any loans, to the companies who built the houses. Everyone is left with dollars in their hands that are getting more and more worthless because the value of the dollar is falling.

Could the FED do something else? No. That was why it was created: to cheat everyone out of their money while protecting the banks and the federal government against default and failure, no matter what.

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IS LIBERALISM WORKING FOR THE BLACK COMMUNITY?

Patriot Update – 8/20/2011 – Laura Ingraham on The Factor

http://patriotupdate.com/11184/is-liberalism-working-for-the-black-community

Video with Laura Ingraham, Rep. Allen West and Rep. Charles Rangel.  Laura asks:  Did it work?

READER COMMENT:  The Democratic Party and their politics of Liberalsim has destroyed Black families with welfare. Someone please tell me how liberals look out for Black Americans? By championing releasing black criminals back into their communities? By standing up for rioters? By getting promising black college students into schools they’re likely to flunk out via Affirmative Action?

By making parasitic buffoons like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson into representatives of black Americans in the eyes of most of the country? The biggest obstacle black Americans face today is not racism; it’s the paternalistic, “You poor thing! You need our help to make it day-to-day” attitude of liberals that has shattered the black family in a way that even slavery and Jim Crow laws couldn’t.

READER COMMENT:  Yes, a long time back, say 40 years and beyond, the blacks were strong church goers, and adamant about love, charity, morals and ehtics. but what went wrong?………….The civil rights movement tangles “equality” with the values of “old” and came out a stinking rose. All of a sudden, a bad movement arose, spurred on by the Democrats and the blacks lost their way. Now they are locked onto welfare, food stamps, lawlessness, broken homes, out of wed-lock children, and no God and CHURCH……….It’s a shame, but government didn’t help their plight. In fact, it created it……………ghettos, low education, no ambition, poor education. Back in the day, in Florida, 40 years ago, we interacted with blacks and they were wonderful friends and neighbors. Things, over time, have changed for the worse. And all of the liberal policies have hurt the blacks.

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SOCIAL SECURITY -- PERSONAL ACCOUNT OPTIONS

Forbes Magazine -- 3/31/2011

http://www.forbes.com/sites/peterferrara/2011/03/31/a-personal-account-option-for-social-security/

Long article but something that Americans must consider.

With this approach, because standard, long term, market investment returns are so much higher than the implicit returns paid by completely noninvested, pay-as-you-go Social Security, all workers who exercise the personal accounts would receive more in benefits through the personal accounts earning standard long term returns than the Social Security benefits they replace.

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WITHOUT AUTOMATIC DUES, UNIONS HAVE PROBLEMS

The Washington Examiner – Union Cash Cutoff has National Implications – Scott St. Clair – 8/22/2011

http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/article/union-cash-flow-cutoff-has-national-implications#.TlKVl0PZehg.email

For the 2011 recall election, WEAC spent $500,000.

The nearly $40 million all of labor spent on the recall elections, where just over 450,000 votes were cast, comes out to about $89 per vote. Of that, $5 million was local union money with the rest coming from national union sources.

WEAC isn’t alone. Government-sector unions across Wisconsin are cutting staff and trimming expenses.

It goes deeper. Wisconsin is the 16th most unionized state in the country with 355,000 workers, 14.2 percent of total employed, belonging to unions. Of these, nearly half, more than 175,000, are government workers. Nationally, there are more government workers in unions than private-sector workers. Annually, the private-sector numbers decline, while the government-sector numbers go up.

Kick the props — the union shop and dues check-off — from government-sector unions and you kick the props from more than half of what’s left of the American labor movement that represents a scant 11.9 percent of American workers in total. In Wisconsin the props are gone, and the movement is listing worse than the Titanic.

Soon more workers will have the right to decide whether to join a union and face compulsory deduction of dues from their pay.   That will shut off the automatic millions of dollars flowing to union leaders’ pockets and campaign war chests.

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PUBLIC UNIONS AND PRIVATE UNIONS -- THERE IS A DIFFERENCE

Public unions spend the taxpayers' money.
Private union members work for contractors who must mak a profit.  No profit, no job.
Maureen Martin helps explain this situation for us.



SOMEWHAT REASONABLE -- The Evils of Class Warfare --Maureen Martin -- 8/21/2011
http://blog.heartland.org/2011/08/the-evils-of-class-warfare/

That comment is what prompted Sean’s telephone call. He wanted to know how could I favor trade unions but not public unions.  I said, Sean, you say you’re an electrician, an unusually skilled one. A private employer would value your services and be motivated to pay you enough money to keep you from quitting and getting a job down the street from his competitor. But if he pays you too much, he will have to raise his prices and he’ll go out of business. Then you won’t have a job, and you don’t want that. So there are these limits on both sides built into the union negotiation process. Sean agreed.

But that’s not true for public employee unions, I said.  Politicians negotiate these contracts using other peoples’ money – the taxpayers’ money. Government has no competition, so it can always raise “prices” – that is, taxes. And the politicians know if they give the union employees large raises, some of that money will come back to them in the form of campaign contributions. So there is no incentive for either side to limit their demands.

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RACIAL UNITY, THE TEA PARTY, FREDERICK DOUGLASS AND K. CARL SMITH,

Mr. K. Carl Smith was interviewed by Ginni Thomas for The Daily Caller on 8/21/2011.

The discussion focused on Frederick Douglass Republicans and why the word Conservative has a negative connotation to the black population.  LISTEN TO THESE INTERVIEWS!

http://dailycaller.com/2011/08/21/leaders-with-ginni-thomas-k-carl-smith/

A black political entrepreneur from Pine Bluff, Ark., K. Carl Smith is helping the tea party change its complexion while trying to bring racial unity to the political arena.

The reformed Democrat began educating Americans about the life and lessons of Frederick Douglass in 2009. With his work, he seeks to break down manufactured racial political barriers.

Smith’s agenda is focused on supporting constitutionally limited government, holding elected officials accountable for defending our liberty, teaching the life-empowering values of Frederick Douglass and promoting a fair political dialogue.

The Daily Caller’s Ginni Thomas caught up with K. Carl Smith while he was in Washington to discuss the relevance of Frederick Douglass to our politics, why blacks aren’t inclined toward conservatism and why socialism is problematic.

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PRESIDENT OBABA: NATURAL BORN DECEPTION

News with Views -- Michael LeMieum -- 8/21/2011

Where is President Obama's allegiance?  To what country?

http://www.newswithviews.com/LeMieux/michael159.htm

This was based upon the idea of a singularity of allegiance. The position being that if a person whose father was born outside the country and the son inside the country it would put the son in a position of dual allegiance between his birth country and the country of his father. Vattel stated it this way: “I say, that, in order to be of the country, it is necessary that a person be born of a father who is a citizen; for if he is born there of a foreigner, it will be only the place of his birth, and not his country.”

“At common law, with the nomenclature of which the framers of the constitution were familiar, it was never doubted that all children born in a country, of parents who were its citizens, became themselves, upon their birth, citizens also. These were natives or natural-born citizens, as distinguished from aliens or foreigners. Some authorities go further, and include as citizens children born within the jurisdiction, without reference to the citizenship of their parents. As to this class there have been doubts, but never as to the first. For the purposes of this case, it is not necessary to solve these doubts. It is sufficient, for everything we have now to consider, that all children, born of citizen parents within the jurisdiction, are themselves citizens." [5] (Emphasis added)

So wherein lays the deception you may ask? The deception lies in that over 500 politicians, and countless government and academic lawyers would have you believe that there is no way to determine the meaning of a phrase used by our founders in the Constitution of the United States, the basis of the Law of our Nation, and operative for over two hundred years. Yet, I and scores of other lay people all around the nation have been screaming this simple truth and no one listens. In truth I totally believe they know exactly what is going on, but it does not serve their purposes and to them the end justifies the means.

Here we go again:  another article about BIRTH CERTIFICATE FORGERY OF POTUS
http://godfatherpolitics.com/584/obamas-birth-certificate-and-eligibility-to-be-investigated/

After a meeting with members of the local Tea Party and Dr. Jerome Corsi, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has announced that he will launch an official investigation into the authenticity of the birth certificate and whether or not Obama will legally be allowed to be placed on the 2012 ballot in Arizona’s most populace county. Arizona has a state law, recently passed that any candidate must be able to provide adequate documentation to prove their eligibility to run for office before being placed on a ballot.

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OBAMA: THERE AREN'T ENOUGH RICH PEOPLE FOR YOU TO TAX

American Thinker -- 8/20/2011 -- Obama and the Class Envy Card -- Steve McCann

http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/08/obama_and_the_class_envy_card.html

Check the chart in the article.  Because of uncertainty, new regulations and IRS adjustments, the number of millionaires and billionaires decreases. Because they decrease in number, revenue is reduced to the national treasury. 

The Obama tactic of calling for more taxes on the rich is purely political, and intended to focus anger at the wealthy and to demagogue the Republicans.  He and his party are desperate to avoid answering for their failed policies.   It is the most crass and mendacious of tactics and one befitting a person with no character and integrity that he would pit Americans against Americans for his personal gain while further damaging the economy and the future of succeeding generations.

Only a few reader comments have been copied.  There are more on line and they illustrate and illuminate the opinions of average folks around the world.

READER COMMENT:  The Dems have been doing this forever and it has served them well.  There have been far more Democratic majorities in Congress than Republican over the past 100 years.  Do we expect them to give up what works?  The sheeple respond to this rhetoric.  It doesn't work for the country, but it works for power hungry Dems.  It won't work this time because the Marxist in Chief is very unpopular, but it's not going away.
READER COMMENT:   Wonderful analysis.  I was unaware of the reality of your tax sysytem.  In the UK when we dramatically raised the taxes on the "rich" the actual amount raised fell in half from what they anticipated.  So the powers-to-be raised the VAT tax and as many other taxes as they could which fell most heavily on the middle-class who could not escape paying them. 

Class warfare is a cottage industry here and is in part responsible for the recent riots.  As your economy gets worse and good paying jobs harder to find (as Mr.McCann so aptly points out) due to the loss of manufacturing, the Left and people like Obama will precipitate violence by their class envy rhetoric.  Trust me when I say--once that cat is out of the bag there will be hell to pay in your wonderful country.   He and his fellow-travelers must be stopped.
READER COMMENT:   Envy is one of the most toxic emotions there is.   Envy makes a weak practitioner of it turn a blind eye to everything that is good enough in his life to constantly pursue the never achievable concept of "more".   There will always be someone who is paid more and has more, just like there are always people who know more and do more.  And by and large, there is a correlation between those who know or do more and those who are paid more and have more.   This is not a 100% rule, but in a relatively functional capitalist society, it is strongly correlated.    While there is a relative concept of being underpaid, it can be remedied provided there is a robust enough economy to provide options for those with talent.  

But if envy is used to buy votes that put social engineers in power whose only stated goal is equal outcomes, then there will be no connection knowing more and doing more and being paid more and having more.   Such things will be determined not by talent but by far cruder methods like group membership, such as party, gender, race, religion, etc....

READER COMMENT:   I'm sorry garbage in, garbage out; conceptually, the system is wrong as is most of the conclusions. First, forget the assumptions and let's begin with basics. A progressive tax system has only one function (besides raising revenues for an insatiable beast) and that is the concept. It is not democratic (small [d]) it is punitive. Do the rich get more free services than the poor? Is their defense greater than the lowest tax rate? Obviously not. Then there is the little question of who pays the highest bracket and what are their options for not paying their "fair share." Why do you suppose there is so much lobbying for special advantages? Why do you suppose that Obama claims he is going to raise one billion dollars? And, how did we end up with four branches of government instead of three? And, two of the four are beyond the reach of citizens altogether. What four?

The bureaucracy of the various agencies for one thing have their own tax mechanism, they merely call it a fine. It is not rare that a similar tax is levied by the courts. Further, let's look at the various deductions (and I will guarantee for every one congress abolishes, two or...

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BILDERBERG: THE IDEOLOGY OF A ONE WORLD COMPANY

READ THIS ENTIRE ARTICLE -- IT IS SO IMPORTANT
Right Side News -- S&P and the Bilderbergers:  All Part of the Plan?   8/18/2011

http://www.rightsidenews.com/2011081814325/us/politics-and-economics/sap-and-the-bilderbergers-all-part-of-the-plan.html?utm_source=Right+Side+News&utm_campaign=42f5782b87-daily-rss-newsletter&utm_medium=email

[A]fter the market close on Friday August 5th, we received word that S&P CEO Deven Sharma had taken control of the ratings agency and personally led the push for a U.S. downgrade. There is a lot of evidence that he has deliberately tried to trash the U.S. economy. Even after discovering that the S&P debt calculations were off by $2 trillion, Sharma made the decision to go ahead with the unethical downgrade. This is a guy who was a key contributor at the 2009 Bilderberg Summit that organized 120 of the world's richest men and women to push for an end to the dollar as the global reserve currency.

[T]hrough his writings on “competitive strategy” S&P CEO Sharma considers the United States the PROBLEM in today’s world, operating with what he implies is an unfair and reckless advantage. The brutal reality is that for "globalization" to succeed the United States must be torn asunder . . .

It seems the Bilderbergers are less interested in governing the world than in owning the world.

The idea behind each and every Bilderberg meeting is to create what they themselves call THE ARISTOCRACY OF PURPOSE between European and North American elites on the best way to manage the planet. In other words, the creation of a global network of giant cartels, more powerful than any nation on Earth, destined to control the necessities of life of the rest of humanity.

That base of power was found in the private global banking system.

The world company acquires assets by preventing governments from issuing their own currencies and credit. Money is created instead by banks as loans at interest. The debts inexorably grow, since more money is always owed back than was created in the original loans.  (For more on this, see here.) If currencies are not allowed to expand to meet increased costs and growth, the inevitable result is a wave of bankruptcies, foreclosures, and sales of assets at firesale prices. Sales to whom?  To the “world company.”
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MOM, DAD, AND STABLE FAMILES MATTER TO AMERICA

How Broken Families Break the Bank -- The Fiscal Times -- Liz Peek -- 8/17/2011

http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Columns/2011/08/17/How-Broken-Families-Break-the-Bank.aspx#page1


According to a study released last fall by the Brookings Institute, the rise in children born out of wedlock is “assuring the persistence of poverty, wasting human potential, and raising government spending.” In its Strengthening Fragile Families study of single-parent households, the Brookings researchers wrote that “the most important conclusion … is that these families play a central role in boosting the nation’s poverty rate and that they and their children contribute disproportionately to many other serious social problems.” 

Should the country be alarmed by these trends? According to Benjamin Scafidi, an economist at Georgia State’s Bunting School of Business, fractured families, divorce and unwed childbearing cost taxpayers at the least $112 billion per year, some $70 billion is in federal outlays, the balance borne at the state and federal level. His work is based on evidence that single-parent households tend to have a higher propensity towards poverty, which boosts spending for food stamps and Medicaid, for instance. He also concludes that young people raised by single parents are more likely to get into trouble, more often developing drug problems or ending up in jail.

Wisconsin Family Action -- Radio commentary
http://www.wifamilyaction.org/files/trya.campaigntoolbox.org/downloads/901%20complete.mp3

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AGENDA 21 / SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Get Educated:  (The U.N. Wants to control your property rights) –

Agenda 21  http://sustainabledevelopment.com/

International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives – http://www.iclie.org/ -- this site may be difficult to navigate.

“Development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of the future generations to meet their own needs”

. . .this simply-worded, positive-sounding definition hides the agenda that can only lead to a breathtaking transformation of society. According to its advocates, to achieve the goal of meeting today’s needs with out compromising the needs of the future requires massive amounts of land and natural resources to be permanently locked away from use; that means preservation not conservation. More importantly, according to them, it requires an entirely new way of thinking about how society is organized.

In order to fully comprehend the magnitude of the changes required to enforce Sustainable Development, a much more descriptive and honest definition is necessary. One such as this: Imagine an America in which a specific “ruling principle” is created to decide proper societal conduct for every citizen. That principle would be used to consider regulations guiding everything you eat, the kind of home you are allowed to live in, the way you dispose of waste, perhaps even the number of children you may have, as well as the quality and amount of education your children may receive. As I said, Sustainable Development encompasses every aspect of our lives.

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OBAMA'S TREATY BY EXECUTIVE ORDER

This one makes your jaw drop -- For 30 years the Senate refused to ratify a treaty, but President Obama signed an executive order over a year ago that no one in Congress has challenged.  President Obama does not need elected representatives to pass law--he just makes up his own.

http://www.newswithviews.com/LeMieux/michael158.htm

News with Views -- Michael LeMieux -- 8/17/2011

A year earlier, 2009, President Obama directed the creation of the “Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force ” who was tasked to come up with a recommendation for how to best manage the ocean resources and waterway usages. Their final report read quite similarly to the, surprise -- surprise, Law of the Sea Treaty mandates.

Upon receiving the final recommendations of the Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force President Obama signed into law Executive Order 13547 and instituted a run around of the requirement to have all treaties ratified by the Senate and creating law outside of the legislature.

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SOCIALIST DEMOCRATS ARE IN THE HOUSE

Socialism comes before Communism:

Socialist Party of America Releases Names of 70 Democrats who are Socialists – 8/15/2011

Including two from Wisconsin:  Gwen Moore (WI-04) and Tammy Baldwin (WI-02)

http://thespeechatimeforchoosing.wordpress.com/2010/08/15/socialist-party-of-america-releases-the-names-of-70-democrat-members-of-congress-who-are-members-of-their-caucus/

45 Communist Goals for Take-over of America—Look what they’ve done since 1963

http://www.divine-way.com/45_communist_goals_for_take_over_of_america.html

Democratic Socialists of America Claims Obama Was a Member – 10/8/2008

http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/194354.php

Obama is Hiding a Radical Past – 10/7/2008

http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/5300/obama-is-hiding-a-radical-past/

Victims of Communism – Communism’s Crimes against Humanity

http://www.victimsofcommunism.org/history_communism.php

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WHAT IS AGENDA 21?

Six-minute YouTube video gives a quick introduction.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3qW2XJZdSA&feature=player_embedded

Presidential Candidate Rick Perry may be Tied to Agenda 21: 

Selling Texas to Foreigners, jabs Obama at Same

http://www.examiner.com/transportation-policy-in-san-antonio/rick-perry-tied-to-agenda-21-globalist-policies

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THREATS TO FREEDOM INDEX

http://biggovernment.com/pgeller/2011/08/15/the-afdi-threats-to-freedom-index/

American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI) has compiled a list of active groups that are threats to freedom in the U.S.

Open the link and scroll down--you'll see the names of groups you recognize.
They are threatening your freedom.

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LOGICAL END OF THE NANNY STATE - LOOK TO ENGLAND

Then look where America is headed.  Too many people are on welfare and not WORKfare.


http://patriotupdate.com/10866/the-logical-dead-end-of-the-nanny-state

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NARSCISSISTS RISE TO THE TOP BECAUSE . . .

PEOPLE MISTAKE THEIR CONFIDENCE AND AUTHORITY FOR LEADERSHIP
Mail On-Line -- 8/11/2011 -- Anna Edwards

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2024577/Narcissists-rise-people-mistake-confidence-authority-leadership-qualities.html#ixzz1Uk4jxjZn

However, scientists have discovered that while narcissists are convincing leaders, they are so consumed by their own brilliance that it actually cripples their creativity and often causes them to make bad decisions.
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OBAMA'S FAILED PRESIDENCY

American Thinker -- 8/1/2011

http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/08/obamas_failed_presidency.html

Little does Barack Obama understand that he has forever branded himself as an incompetent and failure.  His narcissism and lifelong history of receiving public adulation will not allow him to comprehend the damage.  He does not understand that now few will listen to his speeches, no matter how well delivered; that few will believe what he is saying, as he has lied and obfuscated the facts so often.  Many world leaders have already arrived at the conclusion that Barack Obama is a leader that cannot be trusted, the citizens of the United States are beginning to  understand that he is a man without a core set of principles thus incapable of guiding the ship of state.

The Obama Presidency is over.  He has abdicated all responsibility to the Congress, in particular the House of Representatives, which has little choice but to assume a role they are not structured to do: lead the country as best they can until November 2012.  The American people, suffering under the burden of high joblessness, eroding housing values, inflation and dramatically declining economic growth with no prospect of any immediate relief, are increasingly resigned to the fact that they must focus on surviving as best they can until the election.
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OBAMA PROVES LIBERALISM DOESN’T WORK

LEFT IS FREAKING OUT  -- Rush Limbaugh -- 8/11/2011

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_081111/content/01125118.guest.html

The wealthiest 1% in this country employ more people than the poorest in this country, and the people that work for the government are making out like bandits!  . . . Obama is employing their radical views.  Obama is going after every target they've got.  Obama's got a bull's-eye on practically every target these guys want to be hit.  

The entire country, our entire system is under attack.  When we talk about "creating wealth," we're talking about one thing: Capitalism.  Socialism does not create wealth.  Socialism redistributes it, but if there's nothing creating wealth, then of course there's nothing to redistribute.  Socialism destroys wealth.

Government destroys wealth, plain and simple. 

. . . This is the emergence . . . of American progressivism after a hundred years of maturation.  This is what it looks like.
. . . ," in other words, utter chaos and failure, . . .

. . .  everybody knows this doesn't look good, whatever it is. It doesn't look good.  This is not what it was supposed to be. 

Obama is illustrating that everything these people believe is bankrupt, folks. It doesn't work.

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CNN DISCOVERS THERE AREN'T ENOUGH "RICH" PEOPLE TO TAX

Rush Limbaugh -- 8/11/2011
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_081111/content/01125108.guest.html

2009 Tax Year: --140,000,000 tax returns
MILLIONAIRES filing taxes 236,000  -- 1.6% of taxpayers

TEN MILLION DOLLARS in adjusted gross income ---8,274 -- .00591% of taxpayers

"Yet, even though these high income earners are a minority, Obama says the proposed tax increases would boost revenues by $750 billion over a decade, not quite the multiTRILLION-dollar figure the US needs to pay off the deficit, but for many of those who responded to the CNN/ORC International Poll, it's evidently a good enough start."

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A BUSY SIX MONTHS -- THE WISCONSIN GOP-LED LEGISLATURE

A Busy Six Months:

The GOP-led Legislature Has Accomplished a Great Deal Since January

 Posted from Senator Glenn Grothman

Among other things, the Legislature and Governor Walker have:

Passed a state budget (2011 Act 32) on time, without tax increases, that leaves Wisconsin in the black for the first time in over a decade:

• Turned a $3 billion deficit into a $300 million surplus
• Instituted the first permanent property tax cap in our state’s history
• Cut bonding (state borrowing) by nearly 20 percent
• Cut more than 1,000 government jobs, including 735 long-term vacancies
• Enacted sweeping business tax reforms that will save Wisconsin’s job creators over   $130 million a year when fully implemented.

Results:

• In the first 6 months of 2011, Wisconsin showed job growth more than twice the national rate
• 88% of Wisconsin businesses say the state is on the right track, up from 10% a year ago
• 53% of businesses of all sizes predict they will add jobs and increase wages in the next12 months¹

The Budget Repair Bill (2011 Act 10) gave schools and other local governments the tools to control their budgets without sacrificing services:

• MacIver Institute: Wisconsin Schools Already In Line to Save Hundreds of Millions of Dollars²;
• Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Most state school districts dodge layoffs, cuts – some districts hiring new teachers for the upcoming academic year³.

Other Legislative Successes So Far:

• Protected our votes by requiring a picture I.D. at the polls (2011 Act 23)
• Became the 49^th U.S. state to recognize its citizens’ Second Amendment rights to carry concealed weapons (2011 Act 35)
• Created a commission on Waste, Fraud, and Abuse that has already reported a potential $260 million in savings (Executive Order)
• Limited manufacturer liability only to those products they actually produced (2011 Act 2)
• Created a state tax credit for Health Savings Accounts (2011 Act 1)
• Passed legislation requiring a 2/3 supermajority vote to raise income or sales tax rates unless a statewide referendum supports the increases (2011 Act 9)
• Repealed higher auto insurance requirements enacted in the 2009 budget (2011 Act 14)
• Expanded the prohibition against tax money being used to subsidize abortion (2011 Act 32)
• Repealed in-state tuition for illegal immigrants (2011 Act 32)
• Repealed a mandate on local law enforcement to collect racial data during traffic stops (2011 Act 29)
• Expanded School Choice to Racine and potentially Green Bay (2011 Act 32)
• Required a successful drug test in order to receive unemployment benefits 2011 (2011 Act 32)
• Wisconsin paid off its $60 million debt owed to Minnesota under the former tax reciprocity agreement between the states (2011 Act 32)
• Wisconsin paid back the $200 million from Gov. Doyle’s unconstitutional raid of the Patients Compensation Fund (2011 Act 32)

Looking forward to the next six months!  Here are some of the issues I will be working on:

• Welfare Reform
• Reining in divisive Affirmative Action programs
• Giving Parents More Options in Education
• Growing jobs by reining in excessive regulation
• Tort reform
• Restoring Parents’ Rights

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Footnotes:

¹ http://www.jsonline.com/business/123511849.html

² http://maciverinstitute.com/2011/07/wisconsin-schools-already-in-line-to-save-hundreds-of-millions-of-dollars-through-newly-negotiated-teacher-contracts/

³ http://www.jsonline.com/news/education/125696138.html

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WHITE HOUSE STAFFERS GET PROMOTIONS AND RAISES

Gawker.com – 11/12/2010 – White House Staffers Got a Bigger Raise than You did Last Year

http://m.gawker.com/5687778/white-house-staffers-got-a-bigger-raise-than-you-did-last-year

White House’s Top 20 Raises (2009 – 2010)

http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gawker/2010/11/whitehousechart_large.jpg

White House’s Top 20 Raises (2010 – 2011)

http://edge.liveleak.com/80281E/s/s/17/media17/2011/Jul/7/LiveLeak-dot-com-bcfd769c3c70-0706_whchart.jpg?d5e8cc8eccfb6039332f41f6249e92b06c91b4db65f5e99818bad697444dd9d4e21a&ec_rate=300

“(W)ith respect to future debt; would it not be wise and just for that nation to declare in the constitution they are forming that neither the legislature, nor the nation itself can validly contract more debt, than they may pay within their own age.” — Thomas Jefferson, in a letter to James Madison (1789)

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WHAT'S THE TRUTH ABOUT POVERTY IN AMERICA?

The Heritage Foundation discusses this topic with charts:
Percentage of All U.S. Households which have Various Amenities
Percentage of Poor U.S. Households which have Various Amenities

http://www.askheritage.org/whats-the-truth-about-poverty-in-america/?utm_source=AH_Weekly&utm_medium=Email&utm_content=2011-07-22&utm_campaign=2011_Brand

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UNCLE SAM, SUGAR DADDY

Michael A. Walsh – New York Post

MUST READING TO UNDERSTAND THE ISSUE – THE GOVERNMENT TAKES SO IT CAN GIVE AWAY

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/uncle_sam_sugar_daddy_b5PtLOJxAhWJuG66PQxZlN#ixzz1SZk2OnfA

. . . just ask yourself this simple question: When did it become the primary function of the federal government to send millions of Americans checks?  Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security and debt interest consume -- at the moment -- nearly half of our $3.8 trillion budget.

The debt-ceiling cage match is the culmination of the Democrats' 75-year-long fight to establish a voting bloc of dependents under the false flags of "compassion" and "social justice." It's sapped our strength, created a welfare mentality and, if unchecked, will reduce us to a nation of aging, resentful beggars with eyes cast permanently toward Washington.

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TEN WAYS PROGRESSIVE POLICIES HARM SOCIETY’S MORAL CHARACTER

Dennis Prager – Townhall – 7/19/2011

http://townhall.com/columnists/dennisprager/2011/07/19/ten_ways_progressive_policies_harm_societys_moral_character/page/full/

Thoughtful comments about big government, welfare state, entitlements, corruption, family life and grown-up responsibilities, military preparedness, and class warfare / envy.  None of this matters to progressives. Against all this destructiveness, they will respond not with arguments to refute these consequences of the liberal welfare state, but by citing the terms "social justice" and "compassion," and by labeling their opponents "selfish" and worse.

If you want to feel good, liberalism is awesome. If you want to do good, it is largely awful.

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ADULT STEM CELL RESEARCH FACTS

There is hope through the research of ADULT STEM CELLS

http://www.stemcellresearchfacts.org/

Discover, learn, share -- Hope, Therapies, Treatments

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EDUCATION MADE SIMPLE -- HERITAGE

http://www.askheritage.org/video-education-spending-are-we-getting-what-we-pay-for/?utm_source=AH_Weekly&utm_medium=Email&utm_content=2011-07-15&utm_campaign=2011_Brand

Heritage has a quick three-minute video describing increaded funding for soccer as an analogy for increased funding for education. 

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NULLIFICATION -- STATES CAN RESIST FEDERAL LAW

Personal Liberty Digest -- 7/15/2011
WHETHER THE GOVERNMENT WANTS US OR NOT

States may resist federal law deemed to be uncondtitution which results in some Federal law being rendered, in practice, null and voir or unenforceable.

http://www.personalliberty.com/conservative-politics/liberty/whether-the-government-wants-us-to-or-not/?eiid=&rmid=2011_07_15a_PLA_%5bP11732274%5d&rrid=387142498

What we have here, then, is a blueprint. When enough people say no to unConstitutional “laws,” regulations and mandates… and enough States pass laws to back up those people, there’s not much the Federal government can do, but slowly and consistently back off. There are no tanks rolling into Los Angeles to shut down the dispensaries. This is far from perfect, but it can work, and it is working right now.

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SHATTERING THE SOCIAL SECURITY MYTH

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=44843

 

Human Events -- 7/14/2011

But last Tuesday, President Obama said, “I cannot guarantee that [Social Security] checks go out on August 3^rd if we haven’t resolved this issue.  Because there may simply not be the money in the coffers to do this.”

 

READER COMMENT:  Let every SS recipient make the following calculation: 1) get from the SSA the complete list of your annual contributions; 2) add your company's SS payments made in your name (that is by how much your salary was reduced); 3) add income tax you paid in your personal SS contribution; 4) sum up the 3 amounts and invest the sum in the 5% tax-free municipal or state bonds; 5) repeat this process for all your working years until retirement. You will then have the real value of your payments. Compare now this capital to your miserable monthly SS payment. In my case the value after 33 years of work of this personal fund was $1,800,000, earning tax-free return of $90,000/year, or $7,500/month, without touching the capital which I could have left to my inheritors. Compare that amount with my actual payment of $1,400/month. The difference illustrates the amounts stollen from me by this gigantic, criminal Ponzi scheme.

 

Scroll down a bit to see Obama’s Lie:  June Revenues ($248 billion) and June Expenditures ($213 Billion)

http://www.freedomandeconomics.com/

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UNITED STATES COUNTIES -- MOVING IN AND MOVING OUT

2010 Census Map—Glide your curser over the map to view every county in the US.

Compare 2000 populations to 2010 populations in each county and zip code. 

View what populations move in and what populations move out.

http://projects.nytimes.com/census/2010/map?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=thab1

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LEARN SOMETHING ABOUT AMERICA'S HERITAGE

Links to Educattional Sites
"Charters of Freedom" -- Founding Fathers and Documents
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/charters.html


Founding Fathers Quotes
http://www.marksquotes.com/Founding-Fathers/


Everything You Wanted to Know About The American Flag
http://www.pueblo.gsa.gov/cic_text/misc/ourflag/titlepage.htm 


Flag Rules and Regulations
http://www.ushistory.org/betsy/flagetiq.html


Patriot Melodies
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/patriotic/patriotic-home.html

10 Things You Might Not Know About America's Independence
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/07/04/10-things-might-not-know-about-our-independence/


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'STIMULUS' COST $278,000 PER JOB

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/obama-s-economists-stimulus-has-cost-278000-job_576014.html


The Weekly Standard -- 7/3/2011


The 'stimulus' is now causing the economy to shed jobs instead of create jobs.

Unemployment Rate -- 2001 -- 2011
http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS14000000
Renewing America's Promise -- Barack Obama's Message -- 2/26/2009
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/usbudget/fy10/pdf/fy10-newera.pdf

U.S. Debt Clock
http://www.usdebtclock.org/

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CELEBRATE THE FOURTH OF JULY WITH THE 4TH OF JULY DECLARATION

http://townhall.com/columnists/dennisprager/2011/07/02/do_this_for_10_minutes_on_the_fourth_of_july/page/full/

Dennis Pragger -- 7/2/2011
Four years ago, I wrote a column titled "America Needs a July Fourth Seder." In it, I explained that "national memory dies without national ritual. And without a national memory, a nation dies." Many readers and listeners to my radio show responded by creating their own rituals to make the day far more meaningful than watching fireworks and eating hot dogs.


I now present a simple 10-minute ceremony that every American can easily use on July Fourth. It is a product of the Internet-based Prager University that I founded nearly two years ago. We call it the Fourth of July Declaration, and here it is. (A paginated and printed version can be downloaded at the website www.prageruniversity.com).


It begins with a note to the individual leading the ritual, the "host."


http://www.prageruniversity.com/4th-of-july-declaration.html


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THE CONSTITUTION MATTERS

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/270584/constitution-matters-thomas-sowell

Thomas Sowell -- 6/28/2011
From the irrelevant to the erroneous is a short step for Mr. Stengel. He says, “If the Constitution was intended to limit the federal government, it certainly doesn’t say so.”  Apparently Mr. Stengel has not read the Tenth Amendment: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”

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