February 25th, 2009 by admin
The Labor Department–a shameful and disgusting example of government agencies that exist solely for the sake of sounding necessary–surprised no one by stating that a lot of jobs were lost last month, and that it was a lot worse than the previous January
Breaking news like this is made possible with a mere $53.1 billion budget.
No word on whether the bloated, bureaucratic and mostly-unnecessary government the labor Department exists under has any plans to shut off the misery valve opened wide with the endless spend-and-print-athon that the Republicans began and Democrats are eagerly continuing. But it is fairly safe to assume that we will be receiving these multi-billion dollar updates on the worsening job market for some time to come.
February 25th, 2009
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February 25th, 2009 by admin
It isn’t the quantity of increased socialism critics oppose, its the quality.
State-sponsored insanity of steal-from-the-haves continues to snowball, and continues to be met with complaints that the theft, ignorance, and awful life lessons should be worsened.
Students whose parents are delinquent on their children’s government school lunch accounts may be gifted a lower-end meal from the local tax-payers.
Some school districts are instituting a “cheese sandwich” policy, designed to cut the cost of feeding children who aren’t yours. Some parents complain that this special, low end meal comprised of a cold cheese sandwich and carton of milk singles out these children, and is potentially embarrassing. Government, however, is not the slightest bit embarrassed that the entire “public” school system is funded with money taken at gun point from many people who do not even have children. Still, those clamoring for fairness may have a point.
The cheese sandwich doctrine applies only to parents who can afford to feed their kids, but do not. The offspring of professional parasites needn’t worry–the inability to pay anything will not cause your child the slightest discomfort, as they are left free to enjoy the same standard fare as kids from wealthy families, who are actually buying several lunches.
February 25th, 2009
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February 18th, 2009 by admin
There was never much hope among the educated that the Obama administration would do much for the cause of freedom, save for adopting a slightly more sane medical marijuana policy, considering ending the abortion of a war in Iraq, and closing Gitmo. That said, such immediate idiocy of Obama & Co. is a bit of surprise. Both of the nations two remaining fiscal conservatives had predicted that the new President would delay the implementation of Marxist moronity until summer.
There was no time, the then President-elect explained as he readied for phase one of Operation Outspend Bush even as the echoes of his own voice blaming Bush’s spending record for the economic woes America faces were still audible.
In fairness, it takes a brave soul filled with self-confidence, and equally assured of public complacency to even attempt a feat as far-reaching and dangerous as outsquandering Bush the lesser. Mr. Obama, apparently feels up to the task.
Beyond the dual absurdities of calling for abject socialism without limit, and the championing of the heretofore veiled and sanitized concept that government can do limitless good if given limitless power, comrade Obama is now performing his Disaster-is-Necessary trapeze act without a net, making real decisions rather than paper ones. This first of many colossal blunders-in-waiting (as recognized by everyone without a government job) has been relegated to fail-safe by Mr. Obama’s economic advisers, who, judging by their obtuse refusal to accept plain economic realities, likely doubt gravity and a heliocentric galaxy, as well.
Passing billions of newly-printed dollars through the extraordinarily greedy and inefficient hands of the state before watching as the remnants are gifted to companies helmed by those too stupid to turn a profit, we are told will magically “stimulate” an economy choked out of consciousness by government itself. This is the plan conceived by the Godlike agent of change. Excuse me, waiter, I ordered the change.
I loathed Bill Clinton in a way that defied explanation. But George W. Bush made me long for the days of the sexually frustrated and Teflon-coated Bubba. I hated Herr Bush with a passion usually reserved for 20th century tyrants from other hemispheres. But I may miss him yet.
February 18th, 2009
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January 21st, 2009 by Artus Register
What kind of person has no regrets? Perhaps I just live worst than most, and make many more mistakes. But I have many regrets. Sure, it is difficult to truly regret things when mistakes have combined to make you–finally–a person you are proud of. But mistakes are mistakes, and the “butterfly effect” is greatly exaggerated. It is folly to think that a few hundred errors of your past would truly prevent you from finding your way to happiness. At any rate, most of us count among our sins actions taken in relationships, whether with family, partners, co-workers, etc. We may also regret having stolen a pocket knife at an early age, or blamed something on a younger sister. We often chalk such things up to youthful indiscretion.
The great majority of us have not sent men and women to their deaths searching for phantom weapons, nor continued such an exercise in stupidity after material’s non-existence became clear. We have not started wars for one reason, and continued them for another. We have not lied to to our countrymen, accepted their faith, and stomped on our promises, and their liberty.
The man exiting the White House yesterday did all of that, and more. Had most people behaved this way, the last shred of conscience would scream so loudly at night that it could only be silenced by a drug cocktail Lindsay Lohan would refuse.
Much is said about the difficulty of being the President. Which is nonsense. The problem Presidents have is with reading the instructions. The Constitution is a short and easy read. The job of President has a short description. There are a few things allowed, and everything else is not.
Because they don’t follow instructions, they create a lot of problems for themselves; what with all the unlawful jailing, torturing, killing, etc. From there I would imagine sleeping would top the list of problems. That murderous tyrants slumber at all is testimony to their completely jaded nature. Worse is the smugness of men like Bush, smiling at the cameras, talking about his Christian faith (or perhaps he is truly an *antinomian, and fancies himself above above all human law), and dropping verbal bombs that should be the talk of the media, earn him Most Cavalier ribbons, and exude collective vomit from anyone possessing a soul. The most recent: That he has no regrets.
You’ll find that gem in today’s paper, on page 71-Z. On returning to private life, the new Butcher of Baghdad was brazen, as usual, stating, “When I get home tonight and look in the mirror, I am not going to regret what I see. Except maybe some gray hair.” Yeah, hilarious.
That the MSM basically ignores this amazing proclamation is disgusting. The pundits seem to revere his deceit, and his brash refusal to apologize for mistakes that cost countless lives, many of them American.
“He kept us safe,” they parrot, from either of their several faces.
What is safe about a foreign policy that clones terrorists, turns friends to enemies, and exports hatred, is not clear.
“We haven’t been attacked again,” supporters mutter sheepishly, only fairly certain they repeated correctly the line they heard on Hannity, Limbaugh, or one of the other apologist shows. Except that we have. Bin Laden has stated that he is delighted by our military’s proximity to him and his gang. Iraqis have found common ground with Al Queida, and “insurgents” and terrorists alike can kill Americans without too much trouble; without traversing an ocean, or spending millions of dollars and years of time to finance and plan the deaths of “infidels.” And they applaud the safety success of the man without regret.
Wars aside he and his Republican congress have spent us to the breaking point, growing government, expanding socialism, broadening the rot of education with more Washington, and more tax dollars. The man made criminals out of sick people, terrorists out of dissenters, and a mockery of Constitutional government. He gleefully shredded the Constitution and snarled “9/11″ at anyone who objected. He behaved most often as a dictator, rather than a President. He was “the decider,” after all.
The man who once boasted that the country had misunderestimated him was exactly right. We did. Who could have predicted this agrammaticist’s prophecy? Who would have imagined the man who campaigned on a “judicious use of our military,” and a humble foreign policy free of nation building, would have propped up houses of state on a foundation of innocent corpses?
Documented civilian deaths approach 100,000 in Iraq alone.
Add 28,000 for Afghanistan.
The AP counts American military deaths in at 4,227.
There is no accounting for reputation points lost, but the number would be staggering. Neither is thee a counter for infidelity shown to the Constitution, the same Mr. Bush swore to uphold.
Hands dripping with blood, he has passed the torch, and returned to private life, apparently without regret.
If the worst Mr. Bush sees is some gray hair, there must be a magical mirror in the bathroom at Crawford. Many of us see a beast; a murderous thug and tyrant who spent almost eight years waging a horrific war against peace and freedom.
A nagging sense of moral justice forces one to wonder about the contents of his medicine cabinet.
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*antinomian / an tee NOME ee an/ n • A person who believes that faith in Christ frees him or her from moral and legal obligations.
–Another amazing word from Depraved and Insulting English by Peter Novobatzky and Ammo Shea
January 21st, 2009
Artus Register
January 21st, 2009 by Artus Register
Among the many concerns stemming from the inauguration of Barack Obama there is some good news, and some hope.
First, an incoming President means an outgoing one. And while many of his tyrannical ideas may remain, George W. Bush is gone. After eight years of Constitution-shredding, dictatorial proclamations, empire expanding, unimaginable spending, reputation destroying, government expanding, etc. Mr. Bush’s departure is a welcome reprieve from the advancing shadow of hyper-national, jingoistic, neo-fascism.
President Obama has promised to immediately close Guantanamo Bay, an infamous symbol of the U.S.. government’s abject lack of ethics, complete dishonesty, unapologetic cruelty, and gleeful disobedience of its own Constitution.
The incoming Administration has stated its intention to end the abysmal mistake that was and is the war in Iraq. Caution is urged with on this note as Obama has stated that he wants more troops in Afghanistan. So this may be a case of simply doing the right thing here, and the wrong thing there. In Afghanistan, there is at least the illusion that American troops are hunting down Al Qaeda rather than spraying opium crops, nation building, and training a foreign army.
Though our friends at NORML say the news so far isn’t good, there is a much better chance that an Obama administration will not stomp on medical marijuana rights as the Bush’s team did–despite W’s campaign promises in 2000 that he would not interfere with state marijuana laws.
Though they are unapologetic hypocrites, the Democrats would look awfully foolish after making so much noise about warrantless wiretaps and other privacy intrusions if they didn’t address the those issues, and undo some of the pro-government, anti-individual laws that gut privacy protection.
A lot changes are required to make any real difference in government, be it its approaching every problem with more money and power, its vast scope, or its self-replicating nature. And the incoming administration has a long way to go before it proves itself a friend to liberty–economic of otherwise. Most likely, if will be a shell game, and we the people will receive some relief on the one hand, and a heavier jackboot on the other. There is little reason to believe that whatever “change” Mr. Obama brings to the political landscape, it will be significant enough to elevate liberty and shrink government. But there may be some cause for a occasional smile, and with the cracks in the dam this administration may implement, fans of freedom might be able to–with a lot of work and serious commitment–scratch, chisel and claw actual holes.
For significant change to occur, the masses must begin to see government as the failure that it is; as a predatory gang of parasitic thieves eager to help you with your own money, and relieve from you the burden of responsibility. Perhaps a President–seen as many as the opposite of the previous one–will serve as the ultimate illustration that government simply can’t. This isn’t what his slogans of “Hope” and “Change” meant, but they might turn out to be more prophetic than Mr. Obama realizes.
January 21st, 2009
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January 15th, 2009 by Artus Register
The AP is reporting that in the latest wave of violence eleven men were killed in the eastern Chihuahua state of Mexico. The response is typical of government: use force to “crackdown” on drug trafficking, which will result in arrests, seizures and ultimately higher prices for the increased risk and relative scarcity of product and therefore more profit for dealers. The higher profit will result in more jealously guarded territory which means more violence.
Since the US forced Mexico to abandon its drug decriminalization plan in the spring of 2006, the country has instead engaged in a massive crackdown on drug dealing. The result? 5,300 people were killed in drug-related attacks in 2008 alone, which was more than double the amount from the previous year.
Citizens and politicians alike in many Latin American countries are tiring of the incessant drug-violence and are considering the obvious: wiping away the profits with the stroke of a pen.
In the past few years governments in Mexico, Columbia, and Honduras have either seriously discussed or actually attempted drug decriminalization. Additionally, governments of Bolivia, Venezuela, and Ecuador seem to be tiring of the all-out drug war approach and may be warming to the idea of ending violence by ending prohibition.
Thus far the American government, ever the on-paper proponent of free enterprise, has imagined into being a mystical exception to simple economics for the drug trade, pretending that neither risk and reward, nor supply and demand have any bearing on the economy of drugs.
January 15th, 2009
Artus Register
January 15th, 2009 by Artus Register
Despite the singularity of the campaign, president-elect Obama,the man who campaigned on nothing but his desire for change and outsider status appears to already be out of ideas. Thus far his most significant promises have been:
- Spend more money on fascist-style bailouts of failed industry (just like Bush did)
- Send more Americans to die in a foreign war fought for increasing vague objectives (just like Bush did)
- Use the power of government to take money from some and give it to others in an attempt to “stimulate” the economy (just like Bush did)
The only surprising thing about Mr. Obama’s true colors is that he has displayed them so quickly. I would have bet on concealment until at least Valantine’s Day. But it appears that the current straights are too dire, and the economy too important for delay. Government interference and the subsequent worsening of problems must begin right away.
January 15th, 2009
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January 14th, 2009 by Artus Register
The Australian government is apparently unfamiliar with the ecological disaster that resulted from the U.S. government playing God in Yellowstone. It went like this:
In its boundless wisdom, the government, in the manifestation of the Park Service thought the number of park visitors would increase if people saw more wildlife of the hoofed variety. So the began killing, trapping and otherwise removing the wolf.
As is normally the case with government involvement, ignorance, a lack of planning, and abject arrogance combined to form an unmitigated disaster. When the natural order of things is unnaturally changed, bad things happen. A trophic cascade occurs when predators are removed from the equation, and an abundance of their one-time prey gums up the natural order.
In Yellowstone, the wolves and foxes were gone, allowing the elk population to flourish. The larger elk ran off the smaller deer, and set up house along the riverbanks, which they trampled, sending the beavers scurrying. No beavers meant no dams, so the wet areas favored by the mink, otters, ducks, etc.
Sans the berries and trout and fruit shrubs along the river, the grizzly bears moved on to the next most reliable food source–visitor’s picnic baskets.
In response to this destruction, park officials had to begin trapping and removing bears, as well as re-introducing the wolves and fox.
Officials in Australia figured they could do better.
Due to the stubborn refusal of feral cats on remote Macquarie island to stop behaving like feral cats, Australian officials made the decision to exterminate them–all of them.
To protect the bird population, Parks and Wildlife Service of Tasmania officials assumed they could play god, eliminate the predators, and watch the island transform into a naturalistic utopia where life would flourish. And it did flourish for some species.
It seems the cats were not on an all-poultry diet; they also ate a lot of rabbits. Famous for their reproductive abilities, and now absent any danger, the island’s rabbit population exploded. This took a massive toll on the island’s vegetation which provided cover and nesting for the birds officials sought to save.
Dana Bergstrom of the Australian Antarctic Division described the less-than successful government foray into environmental architecture thusly:
“Our study shows that between 2000 and 2007, there has been widespread ecosystem devastation and decades of conservation effort compromised…We estimate that nearly 40 per cent of the whole island area had changed, with almost 20 per cent having moderate to severe change,”
Wow, nice job. Lest anyone wonder what can now be done, fear not, the government has a solution. The problem, they contend, is that the rabbits were not eliminated at the same time as the cats. So in this alleged treasure of natural history government is now going use helicopters to drop poison on the island to kill all of the rabbits, rats, and mice. The remaining rabbits will later be trapped.
Poison bait dropped from helicopters, a hare holicost, the forceful removal of three different species, and all of it done by a government ready to spend $16.2 million fixing their last idea. What could possibly go wrong?
January 14th, 2009
Artus Register
January 14th, 2009 by Artus Register
It seems that Grammy award winning singer John Mayer is going to be getting his own show. This despite his outspoken support for Ron Paul and the Constitution.
The AP is reporting that CBS president Nina Tassler has spoken to the Television Critics Association saying Mayer’s music and variety show is in development and that an agreement is near. One must wonder how much leeway Mayer will have, and if his negotiations with the network include his freedom to push a pro-freedom agenda. If so, the safe money bets we’ll see a lot of Ron Paul and candidates who share his radical vision for a free and prosperous America.
January 14th, 2009
Artus Register
January 14th, 2009 by Artus Register
The Supreme Court has changed mightily since the appointment and confirmation of Chief Justice John Roberts. Finally shed of the remaining illusion that the high court exists as part of the third triumvirate, allegedly assembled to protect individual rights and limit the state, the new court is at last both willing and able to focus on its true raison d’être: empowering government.
Anyone clinging to the sophomoric belief in separate powers effectively engaging in checking and balancing must be thoroughly nauseated by the court’s continued reliance on phantasmagoric findings and citations of the fabulous.
In the latest trampling of liberty, “Justice” Roberts again took the lead in stomping the individual with the heavy, allegedly righteous boot of the state. From his bully pulpit Roberts continued his preaching of the doctrine of government supremacy, this time assuring us all in Herring vs. US that evidence collected as the result of a warrant recalled five months prior (due to its original issuance having been in error) should not be suppressed.
In 2004, authorities in Coffee County Alabama arrested Bennie Dean Herring on a mistakenly issued, since-recalled, and severely outdated warrant from a neighboring county. The result of the arrest was discovery of an unloaded gun in his vehicle and methamphetamine in his pocket. As there was no legal reason for the arrest, Herring reasonably argued that evidence collected during the then-unlawful arrest should be suppressed.
The court decided in a 5-4 split with Roberts, Alito, Kennedy, Scalia and Thomas siding with the state, to gift governments across the country the de facto power to write open-ended warrants. The abuse this tyrannical decision will doubtless lead to should frighten us all, especially as it is but a cog in a wheel the trident of state has been systematically constructing.
Justices Souter, Ginsburg, Breyer, and Stevens seem to have possessed the ethical fortitude, or at least the requisite shame to dissent. Ginsburg wrote in the opinion against:
The arrest and ensuing search therefore violated Herring’s Fourth Amendment right “to be secure . . .against unreasonable searches and seizures”…the exclusionary rule provides redress for Fourth Amendment violations by placing the government in the position it would have been in had there been no unconstitutional arrest and search.
January 14th, 2009
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