I’m not going to pretend this documentary is fair. And I’m sure the Left will find it was funded by the Koch Brothers or something. But I do know that we have looked at wind power with a thousandth of the skepticism with which we’ve looked at, say, nuclear. There is a downside to wind power; there are greedy money-grubbing corporations involved; and — as we’ve seen with this Administration — green energy involves lots of influence-peddling and corruption.

I’m not saying wind power isn’t part of our future. I am saying that the issues raised in the trailer (and presumably the documentary) need to be part of the discussion. There are reasons we turned our backs on wind power a couple of centuries ago.

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But when justifiable laws/laws that make sense are enforced stupidly or without due regard for common sense, the damage is doubled because now you loose the support of the folks, that know better:

A New Hampshire man who fired his handgun into the ground to scare an alleged burglar he caught crawling out of a neighbor’s window is now facing a felony charge — and the same potential prison sentence as the man he stopped.
Dennis Fleming, 61, of Farmington, was arrested for reckless conduct after the Saturday incident at his 19th century farmhouse. The single grandfather had returned home to find that his home had been burglarized and spotted Joseph Hebert, 27, climbing out of a window at a neighbor’s home. Fleming said he yelled “Freeze!” before firing his gun into the ground, then held Hebert at gunpoint until police arrived.

This whole incident is troubling on a number of levels. Not only (in my mind) does this not meet the elements of the crime (where was this in any way reckless?) but they arrest a guy that is helping the police apprehend a burglar, then they take away all of his firearms, leaving him defenseless for future attacks and telling him even before his trial (whatever happened to innocent until proven guilty?) that he cannot be trusted with his existing firarms, and depriving him of his Constitutional Second Amendment protections without due process.

Granted, this is not Texas, where The Castle Doctrine allows it’s citizens liberal interpretations concerning the protection of life and property, but even in left wing NH, the elements of the crime must be met.

Looking at the particular statute supposedly violated:

I. A person is guilty of reckless conduct if he recklessly engages in conduct which places or may place another in danger of serious bodily injury.
II. Reckless conduct is a class B felony if the person uses a deadly weapon as defined in RSA 625:11, V. All other reckless conduct is a misdemeanor.

Firing a weapon, on his own property and into the ground/not at the suspect, does not meet the definition of “reckless conduct”, sorry, but it doesn’t. Now I am assuming that the ground was dirt/grass or made up of some substance that would not cause a ricochet, where the bullet could not be controlled.

“I think it’s outrageous,” Pelkey told FoxNews.com. “He did the community a service here. We ought to thank him for it.”

Could not agree more, this whole episode just stinks to high heaven.

Now since I am familiar with the process, I am somewhat hopeful that:

1) The arresting department will drop the charges, knowing that the elements were not met and the public will not be served going forward with the charges.
2) The District Attorney’s Office will not file the charges, for the above reasons.
3) And if the above two reasons fail, the presiding judge will dismiss the charges on the spot, since he is the lone voice of reason and tasked with injecting common sense and fairness into his courtroom.

I would bet a large sum of money that this case will not go forward, I can’t imagine any sane juror thinking Fleming did wrong. When the electorate loses confidence in the judicial system and it’s ability to interpret the law and protect the law abiding citizens out there, governments get overturned. Here is hoping that cooler heads prevail.

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You don’t tug on Superman’s cape
You don’t spit into the wind
You don’t pull the mask off that old Lone Ranger
And you don’t mess around with Jim, da do da do…

Let’s add one more, no matter how dumb/drunk/cottled/young you are, you don’t go to your local VFW hall and burn their flag, what a goofball:

A few facts on this incident reveals much. This Obama voter (Yes, I’m guessing here, but it is a good guess) thought he was special (that is what the public schools are teaching our kids today) that rules really don’t apply to them, and when rebuffed or refused, to not take any of the blame but go out and retaliate, even to the point of absurdity. It also reveals much about the conservatives (guessing again) that were in that hall at the time. The flag meant something to them as a symbol, retribution must be met/justice must be served, and when penance was made the boy was forgiven and given his life back as it was and his anonymity was preserved.

For those unaware of what a VFW hall is, it’s like a Elk’s Lodge, only populated by military vets, vets who’s instinctual reaction to flag burning would be to punch your ticket right there on the spot.

I was a bit concerned when the video related that the burner was hunted down and two days later was caught and given the ultimatum, but he did volunteer for flag pole duty (how much persuasion and to what extent bodily harm was threatened, we will never know), but I like when the punishment fits the crime, and this one fits perfectly. I would also expect the burner to pay for the replacement flag.

The vet talked about the old flag as being retired, much ceremony and procedure goes into even this part of flag etiquette.

Hopefully, the young lad learned a valuable lesson. OWS folks in Oakland or Berkeley, or maybe NYC can get away with stuff like this, impetuous youth and all that, but going this route in fly over states, and at VFW halls is akin to pulling on Superman’s cape, you are just asking for it.

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The gun grabbers are not beaten, however. They still want an unarmed America. The price of freedom … is making sure we keep up to date on stories like this:

Despite spending a whopping $2.7 billion on creating and running a long-gun registry, Canadians never reaped any benefits from the project. The legislation to end the program finally passed the Parliament on Wednesday. Even though the country started registering long guns in 1998, the registry never solved a single murder. Instead it has been an enormous waste of police officers’ time, diverting their efforts from patrolling Canadian streets and doing traditional policing activities.

…

The statistics speak for themselves. From 2003 to 2009, there were 4,257 homicides in Canada, 1,314 of which were committed with firearms. Data provided last fall by the Library of Parliament reveals that the weapon was identified in fewer than a third of the homicides with firearms, and that about three-quarters of the identified weapons were not registered. Of the weapons that were registered, about half were registered to someone other than the person accused of the homicide. In just 62 cases — that is, only 4.7 percent of all firearm homicides — was the gun registered to the accused. As most homicides in Canada are not committed with a gun, the 62 cases correspond to only about 1 percent of all homicides.

Even in those 62 cases, Canadian authorities concluded the registry made no difference. Traditional police work and straight-forward confessions solved most of those. To put it simply, if you find a guy standing over the body of his wife’s boyfriend with a smoking baretta, the registration on the gun is unlikely to have been the case-cracker.

And Lott emphasizes something that needs to be tattooed on the ass of every big-government liberal: this registry came with a cost — $160 million a year, enough to hire 2000 cops or 2000 teachers. And I would be willing to bet that a couple of thousand of either would have done more good than his waste.

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The latest example of a truly useful idiot comes from Hollywood land, where idiots rule and high falutin’ causes pointed anywhere near world peace and understanding, beating those swords into plowshares, are de rigueur:

Sean Stone, son of controversial director Oliver Stone, converted to Islam in Iran last week and says he’s already experiencing a Hollywood backlash.

Maybe the “backlash” he is experiencing has more to do with the dogma practiced in Hollywood as learned through the old USSR, that religion of any kind is a weakness and a disease, the sooner eradicated the better.

I consider myself a Jewish Christian Muslim.

Now I want to give him a hug, how noble and worldly (and stupid). I’m trying to wrap my brain around that. The Koran teaches that all infidels should be killed, umm, does that mean that the Muslim side of him wants to kill the Christian side? This is like saying that you are a both liberal and conservative, a vegan and a carnivore, can like Kate Upton and Marrisa Miller (OK, that one is a bit hazy).

Interesting that he chose a country like Iran to convert to that religion of peace, the same country that has probably more blood on it’s hands (through it’s backing and support of every terrorist organization on the planet) and that same place where the destruction of Israel and all Jews in general stokes their nuclear ambitions.

Here is Sean on The Factor last night, Ahmadinejad is just misunderstood, yeah, that’s it.

“I don’t care if I get criticized. If I can open up a debate about religion and create some understanding, then it is worth it.”

They aren’t criticizing you, they are laughing at you, laughing at your stupidity naivete. First off, to think that you converting to Islam will somehow make for a better world, a world more peaceful and tolerant, that is just goofy, and sooooooooo Hollywood.

But here is the bigger picture, wake the eff up, those Iranian enablers of yours would separate your head from your neck if it not for your conversion, and just remember, don’t even think about changing your mind, they are the exact antitheses of “pro choice”, their dopey apostasy laws mandate that you lose your life if you have a change of heart. Obviously, Sean, you did not think this one out very well.

And why the trip to terrorist land for his conversion, he couldn’t find any Islamic mosques here in America?

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There is also some structural damage to the restaurant, which is located at 6701 Martin Luther King Jr. Highway, at the intersection of Sheriff Road. A collapse team was dispatched to stabilize the building and board up the restauarant’s windows, which had shattered.

A fried chicken joint on MLK Highway is insensitve! Especially when you have a Sherrif – a.k.a “Da Man” – involved too. Some white people have to be to blame and someone needs to pay for this offense.

I am joking of course, and no doubt some will probably think this is in poor taste and insensitve on my part since someone did die, but I am surprised someone making a living from this nonsense hasn’t tried to shake down this KFC. Maybe it is black owned or nobody has made the connection yet.

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But over the past year, the Obama administration has quietly unleashed a multi­agency crackdown on medical cannabis that goes far beyond anything undertaken by George W. Bush. The feds are busting growers who operate in full compliance with state laws, vowing to seize the property of anyone who dares to even rent to legal pot dispensaries, and threatening to imprison state employees responsible for regulating medical marijuana. With more than 100 raids on pot dispensaries during his first three years, Obama is now on pace to exceed Bush’s record for medical-marijuana busts. “There’s no question that Obama’s the worst president on medical marijuana,” says Rob Kampia, executive director of the Marijuana Policy Project. “He’s gone from first to worst.”

The federal crackdown imperils the medical care of the estimated 730,000 patients nationwide – many of them seriously ill or dying – who rely on state-sanctioned marijuana recommended by their doctors. In addition, drug experts warn, the White House’s war on law-abiding providers of medical marijuana will only drum up business for real criminals.

It’s an absolute must-read. Each paragraph is more enraging than the last. What we’re seeing here is just how easy it was for the government to reverse the enlightened course it had followed in the late Bush years and early Obama years. About a year ago, the DEA decreed that medical marijuana had no legitimate purpose. And once that wall was breached, a million ambitious prosecutors and agents flooded through the gap. And now the hordes are stampeding over every law, every jurisdiction, every decent instinct. They are threatening not only the dispensaries but anyone who works with dispensaries — banks, landlords … even state regulators.

There are two possibilities here: either Obama, frustrated with Congress blocking his other initiatives, is acting because he wants to do something. Or he has lost control of his own government. Either way, our federal government is acting like a gang of thugs, shoving aside state law at every opportunity and using every tool in their arsenal to … let’s not forget this … keep sick people from smoking a joint, something hat 70% of the America public support.

And that’s the one glimmer of hope we have: the American public. No one is going to holding a protest and get hit by rubber bullets for pot. But our federal government is now so out of step with the public, so up it’s own ass with Drug War propaganda, that this … perhaps … is the thrashing of a dying monster. 70% support medical marijuana. Half support marijuana full stop. Full legalization barely missed in California. Two central American leaders called for legalization last week. Two of the Republican presidential nominees — including the #3 man in the polls — openly support legalization. It is not a taboo subject for anyone … anyone except Congress, that is.

The tide is turning. But the Drug War Monster is strong. It has seduced the law enforcement establishment. It has fed two million people — two fucking million — into our prison system. It provides easy propaganda to spineless politicians. It has all the power and all the guns. And now it’s reminding us of this.

PS: And while we’re on this subject, may I just take a moment to thank justices Stevens, Kennedy, Souter, Ginsberg, Breyer and Scalia, whose Constitution-shredding Raich v. Ashcroft decision opened the door for all this? You see what you twits unleashed with your sophistry? Here was what Lee had to say at the time, in response to Stevens saying the issue should be decide by Congress:

Hey, Stevens, you dick. I agree with you in principle, that the best solution to issues is usually through the democratic process. But the court system exists for a reason, and it’s to restrain government power over the rights of the individual. In this case, ten states have, through the democratic process you think is so neato, chosen to permit sick people to use marijuana to alleviate their pain, yet you decided to crap all over that by ruling that a guy who grows a plant in his house for his own personal use is somehow covered by Congress’ power to regulate interstate commerce.

Basically this is a huge green light for Congress to basically do whatever the fuck it likes if it can somehow, in some way, sorta, kinda tie it in to interstate commerce. Our highest court just sold us out. And Scalia, fucking Scalia, the one true federalist on the court, actually sided with the majority in this idiocy. I’m just disgusted by the whole thing.

All you social conservatives, remember this the next time you piss and moan about some liberal activist court. This decision is the LITERAL DEFINITION of judicial activism.

Lee was a fucking Cassandra on a lot of this stuff. It’s take seven years, but the full power of our federal government has now being turned against the people of 17 states.

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Oww.

Also my bike is ruined. Everyone who has seen it says they’re gonna total it when the adjuster sees it. ::sadface::

Also I’m gonna sue the guy because he did something so reckless and he was such a complete jerk at the scene. My plan is to make every effort to financially ruin him, because he literally tried to kill me in order to save 3-5 seconds on his trip.

Lastly – and there’s no good way to put this, but – there was a definite racial tone to the scene. My black neighbors, who I know and see every day, all ran to the black driver’s side who was IN A TRUCK and not one of them even came to ask if I was alright. One of them even tried to lie to the cops on behalf of a guy not one of them knew personally. Because I was white and he was black. Post-racial America huh? Yeah. Luckily I had witnesses and a biker cop who knew what happened just from the marks on the road and the damage locations on my bike and truck. Driver cited and lectured heavily.

Lastly fuck my neighbor. If his house was on fire I’d piss on the one next to it to stop the flame from spreading while I watched his burn.

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Two months after vowing to never give up the fight against President Obama’s payroll tax proposal, House Republicans decided Friday that they could not afford the battle any more.

Large bipartisan coalitions in both the House and Senate passed a $143 billion economic package that includes a year-long extension of the payroll tax holiday for 160 million workers, just as Obama had requested more than five months ago, and also extends unemployment benefits for millions of others.

It also includes the doc fix. And this $143 billion hole in the budget is filled by … very little actually. They’ve already quit even pretending to care about the deficit implications. And they wonder why Congress’ approval rate is 10%.

(The WaPo quotes Mark Zandi as saying this will boost the economy. Why that idiot real estate bubble supporter and stimulus maven continues to get press is beyond me. It just shows that no one ever falls out of the MSM rollodex no matter how often or how spectacularly wrong he is.)

A year ago, I thought the payroll tax cut was a decent idea. I now think it was terrible one. Because this tax cut is almost impossible to reverse. Any attempt is branded as “raising” taxes on the middle class (a verb that is conspicuously not used when eliminating the Bush tax cuts is discussed). We seem to now have a permanent $150 billion a year hole in the budget. And no one is interested in fixing it.

Food and ammo, guys. I keep saying it and it keeps looking more and more likely.

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Italian anti-mafia prosecutors said they seized a record $6 trillion of allegedly fake U.S. Treasury bonds, an amount that’s almost half of the U.S.’s public debt.

The bonds were found hidden in makeshift compartments of three safety deposit boxes in Zurich, the prosecutors from the southern city of Potenza said in an e-mailed statement. The Italian authorities arrested eight people in connection with the probe, dubbed “Operation Vulcanica,” the prosecutors said.

The U.S. embassy in Rome has examined the securities dated 1934, which had a nominal value of $1 billion apiece, they said in the statement. “Thanks to Italian authorities for the seizure of fictitious bonds for $6 trillion,” the embassy said in a message on Twitter.

Wasn’t there an episode of the Simpsons based around this?

You have to wonder what these guys intended to do with a treasury worth a billion dollars. Who were they going to sell this to? As a friend said on Facebook, were they going to say, “Hey, this is worth $1 billion, but I like you, so I’ll sell it to you for only $200 million.”?

Of course, at the rate we’re issuing debt, $6 trillion in bonds may one day be a standard bar mitzvah present.

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Every time you hear some donkey or the LSM talk about the job creatiod during the second liberal revolution, remember the information in this graph, then put the bullshit they are telling you into perspective. If you want 4 more years of this then by all means reelect the democrats and let them really take the gloves off. Here is a picture of how that’s going to look:

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The most damning document is about coordinating a campaign aimed at teachers to spread misinformation about climate science. However, Heartland is saying that while the other documents are real, this one is a fake.

We’ll see what shakes out. As with Climategate, I suspect this will turn out to be overblown. Heartland pushes climate skepticism and so they collect donations from people whose business interests might be harmed by global warming legislation. This is neither surprising nor revelatory. The same game is played by business interests who would benefit from global warming legislation, such as Obama’s entire multi-billion dollar “green energy” program and the failed European cap and trade experiment.

Let’s stick to the science and ignore who is funding whom.

Update: This “scandal” is falling apart as we speak. Megan McArdle goes through the bad memo and shows why it’s at least odd, if not faked. And the Koch Brothers indicate their support or Heartlands was for health programs, not climate issues. Yes, climate hysterics, Heartland does more than climate skepticism.

Do you think any of the Lefties cackling with glee over this are going to admit it if this memo is shown to be a fake? I’m not holding my breath.

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We were always bullish on this one. Bryan Fuller’s Hannibal project just got a direct-to-series order. NBC has picked up 13 episodes of the thriller TV series based on Thomas Harris’ classic cannibal serial killer.

Logline: “One-hour contemporary thriller series featuring the classic characters from Thomas Harris’ novel Red Dragon – FBI agent Will Graham and his mentor Dr. Hannibal Lecter – who are re-introduced at the beginning of their budding relationship.”

Personally I hope that in addition to some census worker, he eats someone from the DMV, someone working in the welfare office, and Al Franken. That would probably kill him from all the pollutants these people will introduce to his syetem, but it would be fun to watch him do that.

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President Obama’s 2013 budget request not only recklessly increases funding for the Department of Education by another 3.5 percent (taking the bloated agency’s budget to $68.9 billion), it brazenly eliminates funding for the highly successful D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program.

Not that long ago, President Obama said on the Today show that he would not send his own children to D.C. public schools. For seemingly political reasons, Obama has decided to stand in solidarity with the education special-interest groups and against this highly successful school-choice program.

1600 students are in the program and they have made substantial progress relative to their peers. Perhaps this is the reason Obama continues to target this program (it was killed in the 2009 stimulus, then resurrected by the Republicans). We simply can’t have someone competing with our Soviet-style education system. Next thing you know, teachers are teaching like they want, students are learning as they should, parents are involved and the well of ignorant Democratic voters begins to dry up.

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After attacking hedge funds and their managers during her tenure in the Obama administration, Anita Dunn is now working as a public relations consultant to improve the industry’s image, according to a secret proposal obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.

Dunn, formerly the interim White House communications director for the Obama administration and currently a managing director at the Democratic consulting firm SKDKnickerbocker (SKDK), is being promoted by the public relations firm McLean/Clark LLC as a director of “paid media” for a pro-hedge-fund campaign. The project is described by promotional material as a “comprehensive public affairs operation” to “raise awareness about the positive role hedge funds play in the American economy” and to “eliminate the need for politicians to take aim at hedge funds.”

As White House communications director, Dunn helped President Obama criticize hedge funds as a key factor of the financial collapse—and she has continued that criticism, at least in public, ever since.

An industry outsider who was pitched on Dunn’s proposal told the Washington Free Beacon that he was surprised to see the former Obama official involved in the effort. “First we see Dunn attack us on television,” he said, “and then she tells us to hire her to head off the exact attacks that she herself is hurling at us. The entire thing begins to stink like a protection racket.”

Crony capitalism, where government picks the winners and the losers, and in the process allows the credentialed elite making these decisions to get stinking rich, helps the little guy how again? And lest you think she is an exception to the rule, check this out:

Dunn’s new consulting project comes just over a year after one of her Obama administration colleagues, former Office of Management and Budget director Peter Orszag, also accepted a prominent position in an industry the president has targeted. In December 2010, Orszag took a job as vice chairman in global banking at Citigroup, a company that Obama once tried to dissolve. Current White House chief of staff Jack Lew previously worked for Citigroup, where the Alternative Investments unit he ran was ranked globally as a top “fund of hedge funds” and invested in a hedge fund managed by Paulson. Current acting director of the Office of Management and Budget Jeffrey Zients previously worked for Bain & Company, a business consulting firm tied to GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney. Meanwhile, former White House press secretary Robert Gibbs, now a paid consultant on President Obama’s re-election campaign, is being paid to speak at an annual conference of hedge fund managers this May.

Dunn’s fellow managing director at SKDK, Hilary B. Rosen, sits on the board of the Center for American Progress Action Fund, which along with sister organization the Center for American Progress (CAP), has been a relentless critic of the hedge fund industry. This, despite the fact that Thomas Steyer, who sits on CAP’s board, runs Farallon Capital Management, one of the largest hedge funds in the country. Rosen formerly worked for the communications consultancy partnership Brunswick Group LLC, which advises hedge funds. McLean/Clark’s proposal did not mention Rosen. However, the head of SKDK’s New York office, Josh Isay, is listed in the proposal alongside Dunn.

Of course, if you are looking for the LSM to report any of this you are going to wait forever, and your waiting will be for naught. I wonder what the ratio of these people that don’t pay their taxes at all or in part, never mind their fair share, is. And we all know that the only evil people that do this sort of things are right wing assholes that want to keep women barefoot and pregnant, beat up gays and keep them oppressed, and are damned racists that don’t have the smarts to see how great Obama really is.

It is not a coincidence that when government of these kinds of people talks about servicing the populous, what they intend to do is the same kind of “servicing” that a bull does for cows.

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Given that, why doesn’t he propose something bold? Why does’t he put out Simpson-Bowles? Why doesn’t he say, “Hey, you want the budget balanced? Here’s what it’s going to take.” and put out a proposal with big tax hikes and even bigger spending cuts. He’s had two plans — Simpson-Bowles and the Ryan Plan — but out in front of him. And he responds with this?

President Obama on Monday unveiled a $3.8 trillion spending plan that seeks to pump billions of dollars into the economy while raising taxes on the rich to tame a soaring national debt now projected to grow significantly faster than previously forecast.

The president’s outlook for debt reduction has slid markedly since September, when Obama told Congress that his proposals would hold annual deficits well under $600 billion after next year and permit the debt held by outside investors to rise to $17.7 trillion by 2021, or 73 percent of the overall economy.

The new 10-year blueprint shows annual deficits exceeding $600 billion every year except 2018. And the portion of the debt held by outside investors would grow to $18.7 trillion by 2021, or 76.5 percent of the economy — a full $1 trillion higher.

Administration officials said about half the increase is due to policy changes, with the other half driven by gloomier economic projections that tend to depress tax collections, increase government spending and drive deficits up. Job growth has proved stronger than expected since the budget was prepared, they said, adding that the picture would look brighter today.

To see how accurate their past budget projections have been, Veronique de Rugy looked at the 2010 budget proposal. It projected a $500 billion deficit in FY 2013, about half of what we will actually have.

Now to be fair, the budget proposal keeps overall spending nearly frozen at $3.8 trillion. However, this is part of the problem. The Stimulus bumped up the baseline and we are still well ahead of it. I said at the time that the true cost of the stimulus would be more like $4.5 trillion over the next decade (a $300 billion one-year increase times ten years with the usual spending growth). And rather than cut stimulus bullshit, Obama’s spending cuts, such as they are, are coming from things like NASA, which did not get stimulus spending but is losing any Mars exploration to pay for things like Solyndra.

The President proposes to tax dividends as ordinary income. While I think this should be paired with an overall rate cut, I’m not opposed to this in principle. Since we lowered the capital gains and dividend rates in the 1990′s, we’ve had two investment bubble and little economic growth. I recently talked to an engineering professor who confided that his best students were going into finance instead of … engineering. I think it’s a fair argument that the low tax rates on investments had the side effect of keeping tax rates low for high-stakes financial gambling (that we subsequently bailed out) while leaving them high on people actually working and making. When Wall Street bankers pay a third of the tax rate of business owners, something is wrong.

BUT. But … you don’t start tax reform with the objective of taxing Mitt Romney or Warren Buffet more. The appropriate thing to do here is scrap the entire system and rebuild it from scratch in a way that minimizes the deadweight loss of the revenue our government needs to operate. It is possible, as Reagan showed, to increase overall tax revenues while decreasing the impact on the economy.

But that would require courage. And Obama’s budget basically punts on all the big issues. Stimulus spending? Maintained. Green energy? Increased. Medicare? Untouched. Social Security? Ha!

This is a joke. We should treat it as such. The first serious budget proposal will come out of the House. That’s when we should pay attention.

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And we need to be reminded again that none of this is Barry’s fault, though. After all, Obama inherited this disastrous economy from guess who? And even if it has been three years of Obama policies, and the threat of even more burdensome class warfare regulations to come, that have done harm to any chance of economic recovery, and spending in the age of Obama is on par to double the debt Obama inherited, it still isn’t his fault. Bush is the one that went back in time and created the underlying incestuous relation between the Federal government and the many mortgage lending institutions. The one the left pretends never happened but that resulted in lending institutions being coerced into handing oodles of money to unqualified high risk people with the tax payers to take the hit when things went wrong. Bush also gamed the system until it imploded. After all, he offered little but token resistance in the face of such heroes of the people as Barney Franks and Chris Dodd, whom luckily put a halt to his evil machinations by pointing out he was just a jealous racist trying to keep homeownership from these unqualified people. Heck, the deficit spending of the Obama years is thus Bush’s fault too. Why not? Never anyone but Boosh’s fault.

Anyway, the LSM is out there in full spin mode. not everyone is optimistic with this plan. It doesn’t spend enough for the vote buyers!

Shit, we are doomed. The social engineering class warriors believe this is a win-win for them. As long as the game keeps going, they grow in power. And when the house of cards collapses, they plan to swoop in and take control of everything in true marxist fashion. They aren’t even ashamed to tell people that this shit sandwich is a good deal anymore. After all, if you object you have to be doing so because you are a racist! There must be an election soon and votes to buy.

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Osama Bin Laden told his children to live peacefully in the West where they would get a good education, his brother-in-law has revealed. Zakaria al-Sadah, whose sister is the fifth wife of the Al-Qaeda leader, said Bin Laden did not want his children and grandchildren following in the same path of terrorism like him. ‘He told his own children and grandchildren, go to Europe and America and get a good education,’ according to an interview with Sadah in The Sunday Times.

WTF? Go to evil Europe and America and get an education and avoid Jihad? Seriously? Well yeah, seriously. I am not surprised by bin Laden’s advice. One of the first things I asked when the whole concept of terrorism & the use of death by a lunatic that commits suicide in the process was explained to me, was to ask why the leaders of this movement never where the ones doing the dying, but stupid impressionable kids did. People like Osama are quick to tell people they do not care about all that nonsense they use to sell jihad, but they are never going to put their own kids in harms way. For them, well the men folk amongst his children, I guess, bin Laden wanted exactly the things the death cultists found so objectionable about the west: education and opportunity. I guess like communism, Islamism is full of stupidity and contradictions.

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Think this through. In January, a month before the WH puts out their controversial mandate, an elite member of the LSM, and a former democrat political player, drops a ludicrous bomb shell question, during a republican debate where everyone is focused on the disastrous economic practices of the last 3 years. We all assume he is just doing this in the hopes of getting the republicans to say dumb things the WH could then use to claim republicans want to keep women barefoot and pregnant slaves. Newt smacks Stephanopoulos down so hard that his mother reeled from that hit, obviously denying the left any of the juicy footage they where hoping to get, we all assume, and most of us just forget the incident.

Fast forward a month, and there comes the controversial Obama contraceptives mandate. BOOM! The leftists think they are about to score a huge win with this mandate, because the right is going to make fools of themselves fighting it. To them, government control of all aspects of life, especially when it flies in the face of them fairy-in-the-sky worshippers, is a big bonus, and a win-win argument. Let the bloodbath begin! And we all start arguing that controversial decision and what it means, just like they expected. Only things they “miscalculated” as whatever battle plan the WH had, goes south, and does so fast. Almost everyone understands what a blatantly unconstitutional pile of garbage this idiotic mandate is, and they all say so. Eventually the WH even finds itself backing down and trying to reach a compromise, albeit unsuccessfully so far.

But there is a bigger issue here that nobody has yet brought up: was Stephanopoulos working for the WH when he asked his question during the republican debate? Feeling the ground or hoping to create some controversy that the WH, which was planning this contraceptive mandate, could use for political gain? Sure, it all could be a coincidence, but considering the track record of how the left works, their past transgressions of this kind, and how they love to coordinate their “message”, I think the odds of Islamic radicals suddenly becoming mother Theresa-like care givers and completely turning on their violent ways, are better. No, I think we can, and with certitude, point out that there has to be a connection here, and that it basically again shows how the LSM is completely in the pocket of the left. Basically it now looks like Stephanopoulos was doing the WH’s dirty work for them. Expect a lot more of that. In fact, we should all be wondering how much more of this is going on that we have not yet caught on to.

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