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A wicked smart guy, columnist and historian, Victor Davis Hanson's latest piece talks about the cultural differences in Europe but it has amazing similarities in China. He writes:
But government-driven efforts to change national behavior often ignore stubborn cultural differences that reflect centuries of complex history as well as ancient habits and adaptations to geography and climate. Greeks can no more easily give up siestas than the Swiss can mandate two-hour afternoon naps. If tax cheating is a national pastime in Palermo, by comparison it is difficult along the Rhine.
This is so true as what's been happening in China for the last 60 or so years. Government driven efforts to overcome the culture and in each attempt they failed. The Chinese will always yearn to breath free and make money no matter what the government and what the political situation.
Mr. Hanson continues:
...over the years I have developed an unscientific and haphazard -- but often accurate -- politically incorrect method of guessing whether a nation is likely to be perennially insolvent and wracked by corruption.
Do average passersby throw down or pick up litter? After a minor fender-bender, do drivers politely exchange information, or do they scream and yell with wild gesticulations? Is honking constant or sporadic? Are crosswalks sacrosanct? Do restaurant dinners usually start or wind down at 9 P.M.? Can you drink tap water, or should you avoid it? Do you mostly pay what the price tag says, or are you expected to pay in untaxed cash and then haggle over the unstated cost? Are construction sites clearly marked and fenced to protect pedestrians, or do you risk walking into an open pit or getting stabbed by exposed rebar?
The only thing in that list that wouldn't fit with China is the restaurant closing at 9pm. The rest of that is ALL the spitting image of China. Amazing. Perhaps he's correct as China is wracked with corruption and soon to be insolvent!
I had been thinking this before. How we're told by many Democrats that oil is bad, fossil fuels are bad for us. Then suddenly we're told that Obama has been drilling more than anybody ever or something. Wait, which is it? Are we drilling or do we think oil is bad? It gets to the point where you have to look the Obama Supporter in the eyes and ask them: "Do you believe what he just said?"
I recall that once upon a time Obama derided fossil fuels, bragging that "millions of new green jobs" would accrue from subsidizing wind and solar power and "bankrupting" coal companies, as energy prices would accordingly "skyrocket." But then once upon another time, Obama bragged that on his watch we are pumping more oil than ever before, apparently because private firms ignored his pleas and drilled despite his efforts to shut down leasing on public lands. So we are to credit Obama for stopping oil leasing on public lands, which forced greater production on private lands, while being impressed that he lost billions subsidizing doomed solar and wind companies? When the government fails to promote new energy, that constitutes success because those outside the government then must do more? Do the various Obamas represent both the good but failed intention and the bad successful one?
Comparing "Fortunate Son" a book about Bush published in 2000 before the election and Klein's new book "The Amateur" about Obama.
Byron York writes:
Unlike the media storm over "Fortunate Son," the Wright revelation has attracted very little comment in the press. The Associated Press and most of those outlets that talked about Bush and cocaine? They've had little or nothing to say about Jeremiah Wright and alleged payoffs.
Some Muslims showed up at the 2012 Atheist Convention in Australia. This is what happened :)http://youtu.be/JCfwcd_Ajg4
h/t Instapundit.
This is hilarious. The Atheists (God bless them) were finally fed up with being yelled at and they retaliated. They chanted "Where are the women?" Sang songs, also chanted "ZZ TOP!" Hilarious.
Unfortunately on our side of the pond, the #OWS (Occupy Wall Street) and Atheists and Radical Muslims would be working together I'm sure.
1. Find a site that has an author that you like to read. I have Gregory Mankiw, Byron York, Larry Elder, Thomas Sowell etc.
2. Locate the RSS button on that site for the author's article. Sometimes it's hard to find but here's a list.
3. Go to ifttt.com and sign up.
4. I'm going to do Thomas Sowell's articles so I will start by clicking CREATE TASK
5. IF THIS THAN THAT. Click on THIS
6. Find the RSS feed icon, click on it. Then click NEW FEED ITEM.
7. Now do a Google Search for Thomas Sowell. you'll find a number of places that his article is available. Townhall, Human Events, Creators Syndicate etc. I chose Creators Syndicate.
8. At the bottom of the article you'll see a button that says RSS FEED. Right click and click COPY LINK ADDRESS Here's the actual RSS address: http://www.creators.com/opinion/thomas-sowell.rss
9. Go back to ifttt.com
10. Paste the RSS feed you just copied into the FEED URL box. Click CREATE TRIGGER. On IF THIS THAN THAT, Click THAT
11. On Choose Action Level, choose E-MAIL, or G-mail. I chose G-mail. Then click on SEND E-MAIL
12. Put in your e-mail address or that annoying liberal who you want to convince to not vote for Obama. (Just kidding.) Then in the subject line I recommend you add the name THOMAS SOWELL because that way you know what the e-mail is when it comes in your inbox. {{EntryTitle}} = means the Title of Mr. Sowell's article will appear in the subject line.
13. In the body you should paste this: {{EntryImageUrl}} {{EntryContent}}
from {{FeedTitle}} {{EntryUrl}} {{EntryPublished}} Basically this all means that you are posting any image from the article (he has very few) and the Content or article, the feed title and the URL so that you can click on it and see the article and the date it was published.
14. I honestly don't know what the last part about an attachment is.
15. Click CREATE TRIGGER. and name it whatever you want.
16. Click CREATE TASK
17. And you are done. Be patient. He writes these once a week. The best part about this is that you can immediately forward it to your friends and it's all internally on your e-mail so it's much more convenient.
Here are the RSS that I've used: Larry Elder: http://www.creators.com/opinion/larry-elder.rss Gregory Mankiw: http://feeds.feedburner.com/blogspot/SOpj Cafe Hayek: http://feeds.feedburner.com/CafeHayek Byron York: http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/rss/author/byron-york Jonah Goldberg: http://www.nationalreview.com/author/56454/feed Walter E. Williams: http://www.creators.com/opinion/walter-williams.rss
I'm a conservative American from near your hometown in Massachusetts and I listen to your show (podcast) every night. As you can imagine, as a conservative there are many things I disagree with you about but I think it's good to hear your side of the issues. I heard your Tuesday show and now I am ashamed to say that I listen to you. Your topic about minimum wage and your opinion about it is unbelievably uneducated. The fact that you don't talk about the effect, well documented I might add (do a Google search for Walter E. Williams or Thomas Sowell) of a rising minimum wage on business and employment is truly worrying. Just because it's a populist winner doesn't mean that it's good for the people and the country.
Raising the minimum wage (let alone the existence of a minimum wage) causes unemployment for the most vulnerable in our society, minorities and women. If you don't know that or have never heard that before, I would suggest that you do the same as I do: listen to the other side of the issues. You are cheating your viewers and followers by NOT educating them in this way.
The way I see it: Minimum wage hurts blacks, hispanics, ex-cons, women and people who have no training or experience. (Funny how that list is exactly the list the Democrats tells us they support!) If there were no minimum wage laws there would be full employment. With abolishing minimum wage, people have the freedom to find a job that pays what they think they are worth. If the boss says they will pay you 10 cents an hour, why would a sensible person work there? That idiot boss paying 10 cents an hour would have to raise that by himself to the market price so people would actually come to work for them. Why does the minimum wage hurt that group of people and raise unemployment? Why should a boss pay someone an amount of money that they are not worth? They will hire less people due to the higher cost of hiring and keeping that employee.
By raising the minimum wage, the Democrats are literally sending those jobs overseas. Again, just because it's a populist winner doesn't mean that it's good for the people and the country.
I listen to Rachel Maddow's audio podcast everyday. I listen to it along with the likes of Rush Limbaugh and Mark Levin and some NPR programs. Why put myself through the torture of listening to Maddow's absolute contempt for all things conservative and her daily need to confirm her own intelligence with fellow Progressives as she asks in almost every interview: "So, did I get that story right?" To which they guest responds, "Yes, Rachel, you got it perfect."? I listen to her to get the emotional scoop on what the Progressives are yakking about and then listen to Mark Levin and others to hear the truth.
However, there are 2 recent stories that Maddow has been talking about that I haven't heard at all on Conservative Talk Radio or any where other than her show.
You can actually see pictures of the "probes" that are to be used in Virginia. My question with this is... why are we beating around the bush here? Roe V. Wade should be abolished and each state should do what their people want when it comes to abortion. This is silliness.
MSNBC constantly tells the racial side of the story, how everyone in Benton Harbor is black and Lansing is all white. But I don't buy that. The thing that Maddow and company never talk about is why Lansing is taking over the city. Bad finances anyone? If it was bad finances or debt, the next question is... who is in charge?
---But beside those stories, I know these 2 stories are NOT going to be covered on MSNBC because well, they reveal what Democrats are all about. Sex and avoiding the laws that they make.
“If this hits the media, the Democratic Party, our candidates, and our credibility are doomed in this election,” reads one email exchange between state Democratic leaders.
"So how is it that the man ultimately responsible for this brazen theft and spectacular bankruptcy gets away with performing a perfunctory Sergeant Schultz "I know nothing" routine in front of his old Senate buddies, after which he is left free to walk out the door without handcuffs?
Meanwhile, marine biologist and whale watching ship captain Nancy Black faces 20 years in prison, not for "harassing" whales (which believe it or not is a crime), but because she has been charged with lying to Justice Department prosecutors investing allegations that some of her crew members whistled at a whale to keep it hanging around their boats. You can't make this stuff up."
So, from a Conservative listener who DOESN'T GET PAID TO listen to Maddow's show... think on these things!
With characteristic tenacity, John Stossel outlines and exposes the fallacies and facts of the most pressing issues of today’s social and political climate—and shows how our intuitions about them are, frankly, wrong:
• the unreliable marriage between big business, the media, and unions
• the myth of tax breaks and the ignorance of their advocates
• why “central planners” never create more jobs and how government never really will
• why free trade works—without government Interference
• federal regulations and the trouble they create for consumers
• the harm caused to the disabled by government protection of the disabled
• the problems (social and economic) generated by minimum-wage laws
• the destructive daydreams of “health insurance for everyone”
• bad food vs. good food and the government’s intrusive, unwelcome nanny sensibilities
• the dumbing down of public education and teachers’ unions
• how gun control actually increases crime
. . . and more myth-busting realities of why the American people must wrest our lives back from a government stranglehold.No, They Can't by John Stossel
-This is the key, this is an internationalist, progressive, green and fascist world view. Free contraceptives is a way to stop the population growth.
"It's estimated that if 200 million women were given free contraceptives, it could stop 80 million unintended pregnancies," Geldof, the musician and activist, said yesterday at the second Gulf Intelligence Food Security Forum in the capital. "That would bring world population growth to a halt - which is a start." He said Arab countries' populations were rising faster than those elsewhere - by an average of 1.7 per cent a year, compared with the global average of 1.2 per cent. But in a relative basis, women's advancement is on the move in the Arab world compared to other large parts such as rural China, parts of Africa and India."
Here's the key:
"But Geldof called on the UAE to accept the harsh reality now and avoid disastrous consequences later. They either find a cultural way to make this acceptable or they're going to have an anthropogenic critical event," he said."
-I love it! "Make it culturally acceptable..." Amazing the audacity. The most interesting thing that a lot of these lefties believe is that only through an iron fist they can control population growth. Little do they know, that it's actually Capitalism that curbs population growth, take a look at Japan, US etc. So it must be a different aim for all this. There is: CONTROL.
"The rhetoric of peace and ethics overlaid a reality of endemic violence. Colonial wars, revolts led by prophets, and the coercive reach of the state through government departments and regulations brought turmoil where apologists claimed only to seek "order."
I'm studying Southeast Asia now through an online Masters course and I came across this quote in a chapter about the creation of the Netherlands East Indies from 1750-1914 and I thought it had particular relevance to what is going on in America circa 2012.
There is definitely a rhetoric that overlays a reality in our country today. Sure it might not be violence but if you think that throwing out one of the rights in the Bill of Rights could be construed as violence then I think you might have an argument there.
But the coercive part was really good. The Democrat party today is all about coercion. The health care bill was just a beginning and now there are talks of insurance companies that just can't continue. The whole contraceptives issue is just coercion to have women vote Democrat. The rhetoric on MSNBC (I listen to Maddow every night I can) is that if you vote Republican they will take away all reproductive rights in this country. Nobody on the show challenges it.
But the coercion comes from the government departments and regulations. This couldn't be more familiar. If you watch Stossel or Napalitano on Fox you'll know about this. There's even a book that reveals that Americans break 3 felonies a day. And "turmoil" is the word that could describe America today. Turmoil my whole life (born in 1977) since Roe v. Wade happened and more that I'm probably leaving out.
All the Democrats want is order right? They want cheap fuel but vote not to XL pipeline. They want green cars but only the rich can buy them. They want infrastructure done but their own environmentalists won't even allow it. They want diversity even if it means people can't speak the same language. They want the illegal immigrants to be able to vote because they can coerce them into voting Democrat. They bring contraceptives and homosexuality into every living room while it should be back in their own bedrooms. They support the police unions but then they crap on cop cars. They support all things Muslim (because it's not Christian) and then do things that most Muslims would abhor! That is the "order" they seek. Looks like to me a lot of disorder.
The paining in the post is the capture of Pangeran Diponegoro, a Java Prince who came to negotiate with the Dutch under the white truce flag but was arrested. He is a hero in Indonesia. The painting is by Raden Selah
"We Hold These Truths" is a video that we felt needed to be produced in order to clearly state the main issue in regards to the (HHS) Health and Human Services Mandate. The main issue is Religious Liberty. The mandate, as it stands right now, violates the Constitution and specifically the 1st Amendment. We have a right to the free exercise of our religion without violating our consciences. Every American should see this as an important issue. It is not a Catholic issue. It is an American issue. Join the movement at http://phatmass.com/action
First of all my 4 year old son told me to vote for "Ritt Momney" which I just can't do.
I've lived in Western Mass my whole life and I lived through the Romney days. Frankly back then I wasn't really interested in politics. So I can't even begin to pretend to tell you what I thought about how he governed back in the day. But ever since Obama's election and my return to the states (I was in China for most of Bush's presidency, and not because I didn't like him!) I have gotten into politics and economics and conservatism.
So here are 6 reasons why I voted for Newt in the Massachusetts Republican Primary today...
1. He is the Not-Romney candidate. I don't want to be told who to vote for. I don't want to give up. I don't want to vote for a guy who can't come back at Obama about ObamaCare. Romney won't have a good argument against Obama when he says, "Well, Mitt, we learned it by watching you!" I do think though, that at a particular time, perhaps a week before an Obama/Romney debate on TV Romney should come out and publicly apologize for misleading the country on RomneyCare and then go through a long litany of all the problems it has and how the cost keeps going up. (Which it does and has.) Then, with all the apologies and numbers, Obama will be a loss for words.
2. My number one pick was Herman Cain, you read my post about why I was bummed when he dropped out of the race. I was happy when he endorsed Newt. Herman Cain was the closest I have ever come to actually sending money to a political person. I never did because I just wanted to wait for a bit till he got stronger. I still think Herman Cain would be a great president and I hope he tries again in 2016.
3. Nobody's perfect. I know all about Newt's foibles and his mistakes in life. I also know Glenn Beck's railing against him which I don't understand. The main point about this election to me is that we must choose a leader and keep doing what we're doing. What would happen if a Ronald Reagan type came along? It sounds to me like a lot of people would heave a sigh of relief and go back to what they were doing before 2009. WRONG! No matter what we are politically active now and I must continue to fight for conservatism no matter what! My wife asked me that if a Republican wins the election this year then nobody will listen to Rush right? Those years when we have one of our own in the White House we must hold their feet to the fire and make sure they start dismantling Washington bureaucracies! I think that Newt will do that but Romney will get Potomac Poisoning and will just manage Obama's messy legacy.
Newt Gingrich is the only candidate still in the field who can clearly take on Barack Obama in one-on-one debate and cut through the Obama rhetoric and mystique with hard facts and plain logic.
Nor is this just a matter of having a gift of gab. Gingrich has a far deeper grasp of both the policies and the politics than the other Republican candidates.
Does Gingrich have political "baggage"? More than you could carry on a commercial airliner.
Charges of opportunism have been among the most serious raised against the former Speaker of the House. But being President of the United States is the opportunity of a lifetime. If that doesn't sober a man up, it is hard to imagine what would.
For someone like Thomas Sowell who has been horribly depressing for over a year now, to be somewhat excited about the prospects of a President Newt... that's enough for me.
5. The video below is another reason I voted for Newt.
Couple observations about voting in Massachusetts.
-Apparently we do not have a voter ID law in Mass. I said my present address, they couldn't find it, then I told them my previous address, in the same precinct and I found my name and pointed to it, and the lady said my name and I said, "Yup." and then they let me vote. I told my wife and she commented that she could've gone to vote and they wouldn't have checked a thing.
-Rick Perry, Michelle Bachmann and John Huntsman were all on the ballot. Weird.
"It's not a question of access, it's a matter of liberty."
The liberals of this world just spent the last two weeks defending the reaction of these radical Muslims and now they are attacking the reaction of Rush Limbaugh. It's amazing that Democrats can justify the murder of people by Muslims because a book was burned, but they can't see a broad point by Rush Limbaugh in his description of a liberty issue that has been turned upside down by liberals.
NPR's On Point Radio had one of the most scary shows that I've ever heard the other day called "Regulating Sugar" and since I quick Google scan revealed that the topic came up in early early February I'm a little late to it all. But the reason it was scary is because it's all too familiar, except this time I see it happening in front of my eyes and ears.
The host is talking about regulating sugar because SUGAR KILLS!!! The guest is Dr. Robert Lustig (see his video below) wants to stop people from eating sugar and also Marc Bittmann who is author of "How to cook everything" which I own and will burn very shortly.
Here's a couple thoughts on the show:
-The scientist sited government as the only way to stop people from eating sugar. Then completely contradicted himself when saying that a government imposed NUTRITION FACTS label on food misleads consumers. One govenment program fails we make another one so cover up the failure. As Ronald Reagan said, "The more the plans fail, the more the planners plan."
-The scientist guy is advocating a sugar perimeter around schools. Not allowing certain businesses into an area that sell these things.
-"If a parent wants their child to have a sugary drink they can buy it for them."
-A caller says that she doesn't allow her kids to eat sugar but the holidays are sugar candy after sugar candy, so she agrees with regulating sugar.
-Another caller: "If my tax dollars are going to support a health care plan for people who are less healthy then myself then I absolutely support taxing the sugar because I could get a 5 lb. bag of sugar and not use it in a whole year."
-Another caller calls up about her special needs students who at school consume chocolate milk and strawberry milk and then exhibit behavioral problems.
Again government funded food at school being given to kids and that seems to justify more government regulation.
Finally a sensible voice comes in Art Carden, a writer from Forbes and an economist and professor at Rhodes College. But he was not given too much time on the show and the host, who did not interrupt the other guests, constantly interrupted Mr. Carden.
One thing nobody asked: What about freedom and liberty? This is a question that I'm going to start asking from now on because the answer would speak volumes. I would love to have heard Bittmann and Lustig tell us something like, "Well, freedom is great and all... but..."
Another issue is of course what they constantly said during the show was, we regulate alcohol and tobacco, why not sugar? This of course was the argument by sensible people back when we started regulating those things and the slippery slope argument was poo-pooed. My how right those sensible people were.
Taxing tobacco and alcohol has done what? Has it curbed tobacco use? Maybe, but millions still smoke and they go broke doing it. Where does that tax money go?? Are people not drinking anymore? Millions of people are drinking still and going broke doing it. Where does that money go?
If you go out one day and kill a person, are you responsible for those actions?
If you go out one day eat a greasy hamburger and greasy fries are you not responsible for those actions?
If you go to prison for killing that person, are you not responsible for the fact that you are in prison?
If you are diagnosed with some heart disease and it's possible that it could be linked to eating that greasy hamburger, are you not responsible?
If you rot in prison for the rest of your life paying for the murder of that person are you not justly paying for your bad choices?
If you pass away from the heart disease that might have been attributed to that greasy hamburger, are you not justly paying for your bad choices?
If you are responsible for your actions and consequences... why are others not responsible?
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The biggest issue the people had about this was that there was no other way to stop people from eating sugar, we HAD to tax and regulate it. I have a solution. Get government out of the food business, get government out of food subsidies. Get government out of food stamps. Get government out of school food. Get government out of all things having to do with food and you will see an amazing change. Regulate sugar and you will see MORE and MORE problems.
Below is Professor Lustig's speech about the dangers of Sugar. At press time it has over 2 million views.
Robert H. Lustig, MD, UCSF Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology, explores the damage caused by sugary foods. He argues that fructose (too much) and fiber (not enough) appear to be cornerstones of the obesity epidemic through their effects on insulin. Series: UCSF Mini Medical School for the Public [7/2009] [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 16717]
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Andrew Breitbart at CPAC 2012 02102012 - FULL SPEECH
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What’s wrong with America, and how can we make it right? This is the question Kirk Cameron asks as he retraces the footsteps of our forefathers in the hope of rediscovering America’s true “national treasure.” What made us one of the most exceptional nations the world has ever seen? How did we stray from such a great beginning? Journey with Kirk throughout America and Europe as he explores the foundational doctrines and governing principles on which America was founded. In the end, he realizes that the key to restoring our country is it is not a grand, top-down program that begins in the Oval Office. It begins with our families, around our dinner tables as we seek to renew our nation from the bottom up.
The film delivers hard hitting facts about America and discloses the whys and hows of the founders who first landed on our shores with the hope of building a great country. When asked what viewers will take away from this riveting story, Cameron passionately stated, “This is one of the most important journeys of my life. America is worth fighting for, and so are our families. We can still be a “city upon a hill,” but we need to work together. With God’s help, we can turn this thing around. It’s been said, “Footprints in history are not made sitting down,” and I couldn’t agree more. I hope that our children will mark this moment as the turning point when we stood up, came together, and reclaimed the true national treasure of America.”
African-American Republican leaders held a forum to discuss the black community and the conservative movement. Topics included unemployment in the African-American community and ways to bring more people of color to the Republican Party. They also responded to questions from the audience. Allen West JC Watts Tim Scott Star Parker
